Rain Hat Cover (Galmo)
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. Oiled paper. This rain hat cover is made of folded oiled paper. The cover is worn either on top of another hat or by itself as a rain hat over a supporting frame, galmote, of bamboo sticks. Chinstraps of twisted white paper are joined under the chin. When not in use, the hat cover can be stored like a folded fan. Hough calls this hat cover "an interesting form of the umbrella." Bernadou Field Notes 16 "... Worn in rainy weather over the kat, or stiff black hat. Of oiled paper and is held in place by the strings which join under the chin and are held in the hand. Manufactured at Songdo [now Kaesong], whence come goods of oiled paper in great quantity. This cover is sometimes worn over a light framing of bamboo sticks, which serve as a support instead of the hat." Collected in Songdo (modern Kaesong, Kyeonggi province). Ref: Hough Korean Catalog p. 458; Bernadou Field Notes 16" [from: "An Ethnography of the Hermit Kingdom: The J.B. Bernadou Korean Collection 1884-1885", Chang-su Cho Houchins, 2004, number 75]
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: E77019-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Hat Cover
physicalDescription: label: Length
content: 33.5 cm