Male Mourner's Outer Robe (Simui)
date: label: Accession Date
content: 24 Feb 1886
name: label: Donor Name
content: Ensign U S N John B. Bernadou
notes: label: Notes
content: "Late 19th century. Hemp. This robe is worn over a man's simple overcoat (durumagi) on outings during the mourning period, probably upon the 1884 enactment of dress-code reform or following the 1894 reformation act known as gabo gyeongjang, when old systems were abolished, including the class system, and replaced with new codes (for details of the reform, see CDS, 1962: 24-25). Worn with simui are the pomang, mourner's headband (E77091) and dugeon mourner's cap (car. no. E77089), over which a large conical bamboo hat is worn to hide one's face (cat. no. E77064). Ref: Hough Korean Catalog p. 454; Bernadou Field Notes 33" [from: An Ethnography of the Hermit Kingdom The J.B. Bernadou Korean Collection 1884-1885, Chang-su Cho Houchins, Asian Cultural History Program, Smithsonian Institution, 2004]
label: Notes
content: "Late 19th century. Hemp. This robe is worn over a man's simple overcoat (durumagi) on outings during the mourning period, probably upon the 1884 enactment of dress-code reform or following the 1894 reformation act known as gabo gyeongjang, when old systems were abolished, including the class system, and replaced with new codes (for details of the reform, see CDS, 1962: 24-25). Worn with simui are the pomang, mourner's headband (E77091) and dugeon mourner's cap (car. no. E77089), over which a large conical bamboo hat is worn to hide one's face (cat. no. E77064). Ref: Hough Korean Catalog p. 454; Bernadou Field Notes 33 " [from: An Ethnography of the Hermit Kingdom The J.B. Bernadou Korean Collection 1884-1885" Chang-su Cho Houchins, Smithsonian Institution, 2004, number 60]
label: Record Last Modified
content: 13 Mar 2024
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Korea, Asia
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Not Given
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 016970
label: USNM Number
content: E77084-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Robe
physicalDescription: label: Length
content: 135 cm
label: Width
content: 180 cm
label: Length - Sleeves
content: 58 cm
label: Width - Sleeves
content: 48 cm
label: Length
content: 135 cm
label: Width
content: 180 cm
label: Length
content: 58 cm
label: Width
content: 48 cm