Tobacco Box (Yeoncho-Hap; Dambae-Gwak)
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. Iron inlaid with silver. The four sides of this box are hollowed out, and into one side is inserted a sliding compartment. A pull handle is fitted on the sliding front panel. The side panels are decorated with longevity symbols such as a stork, tortoise, deer, and the plant called pulloch'o, a legendary plant believed to be an elixir of life. The top ornamentation is an ideograph known as ssang-hui or double-joy. Meander inlay covers the sides and top of the box... Collected in Seoul. Ref: Hough Korean Catalog pl. XXI, fig. 3; Bernadou Field Notes 81" [from: "An Ethnography of the Hermit Kingdom: The J.B. Bernadou Korean Collection 1884-1885", Chang-su Cho Houchins, 2004, number 99]
label: Record Last Modified
content: 14 Mar 2024
label: Specimen Count
content: 2
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: E77038-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Tobacco Box
physicalDescription: label: Height
content: 7 cm
label: Length
content: 10.2 cm
label: Width
content: 6.7 cm