Expiatory Effigy (Jeung)
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. Straw. This straw man is called jeung, chuyeong, or cheoyong. (Kim, letter, 25 April 1994). Making the jeung was a common practice to avoid bad luck during the New Year. It was made in human form, stuffed with coins, rice and a piece of paper on which was written the year, month, day, and time of birth of the one who wished to avoid bad luck. On the night corresponding to January 14, this figure was tossed into the road, and whoever picked it up, most likely wandering beggars, assumed the misfortune in exchange for cash. According to Dongguk sesi-gi (Korean Almanac), written by Hong Seok-mo (act. late 18th-early 19th century), children asked for the jeung at every house and, upon receiving it, they collected the coins and hit the jeung, as they roamed along the road (Yang, 1974: 21-22; Kim, 1994: 186; CDS, 1963: 1388, Yi, 1984: 304-305)... Collected in Seoul. Ref: Hough Korean Catalog pl. XXXII; Bernadou Field Notes 156" [from: "An Ethnography of the Hermit Kingdom: The J.B. Bernadou Korean Collection 1884-1885", Chang-su Cho Houchins, 2004, number 153]
label: Record Last Modified
content: 16 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: E77055-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Effigy
physicalDescription: label: Length
content: 90 cm