Man's Hairpin (Donggot)
date: label: Accession Date
content: 24 Feb 1886
name: label: Donor Name
content: Ensign U S N John B. Bernadou
notes: label: Notes
content: "The pin is slightly bent in the middle with a balllike head and pointed end. Men insert this type hairpin in a sangtu (topknot) to hold it in place. They can be gold, jade, amber, coral or wood (Kin1, 1988b: 164; Seok, 1992a: 228; Jang, 1999: 66-67 for illustrations including a wooden case for hairpins). Hairpins express one's social status and taste. Some are longer than others, and the pointed ends are either straight or slightly curved (HUM ('Hanguk ui mi' or Beauty of Korea), 1988: 78 for illustrations of men's hairpins in varied forms, sizes and materials; also Jenings, 1904: 151). One used a black-horn pin when in mourning (Seok, 1992a: 228). The 1895 reform laws decreed that all Korean men cut off their topknots and wear their hair in western fashion. Bernadou Field Notes 99 "Tong-kot [dongg-ot] pin, stuck in the top of topknot worn by men. These pins are commonly of silver and sometimes of gold." Collected in Seoul. Ref: Hough Korean Catalog p. 450; Bernadou Field Notes 99" [from: "An Ethnography of the Hermit Kingdom: The J.B. Bernadou Korean Collection 1884-1885", Chang-su Cho Houchins, 2004, number 39]
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: 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: E77114-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Hair Pin
physicalDescription: label: Length
content: 4.1 cm