Jar For Cooking (Onggi Danji)
date: label: Accession Date
content: 24 Feb 1886
name: label: Donor Name
content: Ensign U S N John B. Bernadou
notes: label: Notes
content: Illustrated p. 46 in Taylor, Paul Michael, and Christopher J. Lotis. 2008. Flagship of a fleet: a Korea Gallery guide. Washington, D.C.: Asian Cultural History Program, Department of Anthropology, Smithsonian Institution. Identified there as Onggi; Stoneware; 12 x 14.5 cm; 19th century. Onggi jars have been a fixture of every Korean household for centuries. Traditionally, onggi (pronounced OHNG-ghee) stored different sauces, grains, and foods such as kimchi, a Korean dish of fermented vegetables and spices. The onggi, which means stoneware jar, has changed very little over the past several centuries.
label: Notes
content: "Late 19th century. Glazed earthenware. This is a globular, reddish-dark-brown earthenware jar. Both the inside and outside of the vessel are glazed so as to withstand the greatest heat, as it is used for boiling water or preparing stew-like dishes. Hough's entry describes this bowl with a native term, "jil-tang-quan," or ji-tanggwan (earthenware bowl for preparing soup or medicine). From the size of the vessel, the other Korean term should be either ongbaegi or jabaegi. Tanggwan or yak-tanggwan, for brewing herbal medicine, is usually larger in size and differs in body form from the common bowl shape. Collected in Seoul. Ref: Hough Korean Catalog pl. XIII, upper fig. 1" [from: "An Ethnography of the Hermit Kingdom: The J.B. Bernadou Korean Collection 1884-1885", Chang-su Cho Houchins, 2004, number 7]
label: Record Last Modified
content: 11 Mar 2024
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Korea, Asia
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Korean
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 016970
label: USNM Number
content: E121617-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Jar
physicalDescription: label: Height
content: 12.8 cm
label: Diameter
content: 14 cm
label: Diameter
content: 9.6 cm