Bead For Hair Ribbon (Daechu Seogunghwang; Daengi Kkotchi)
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. Red clay. This hair ornament is shaped in the form of a date and painted red. It was worn on a black silk ribbon for the queue worn by Korean boys before coming of age. It could adorn women's hair ribbons as well. The queue was worn until the initiation ceremony took place or until one was betrothed. Therefore, the age range for wearing the queue was roughly until 15-20 years of age (Yang and 1m, 1974: 204). Bernadou Field Notes 65 "Red-stone ornament. The Coreans admire these greatly, and small ones such as the specimen are worn in the hair as ornaments by the women; or rather on the black ribbons hanging at the back of the winter cap." Collected in Seoul. Ref: Hough Korean Catalog p. 461; Bernadou Field Notes 65" [from: "An Ethnography of the Hermit Kingdom: The J.B. Bernadou Korean Collection 1884-1885", Chang-su Cho Houchins, 2004, number 88]
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: E77050-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Bead
physicalDescription: label: Length
content: 7 cm
label: Width
content: 4.1 cm