Dominoes (Golpae)
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. Painted ivory. The oversized "one" spot and the "four" spots on these dominoes are in red; all other spots are in black. The game is played by three or four people. The player who first draws the piece with the highest number of pips becomes the jangwon, literally meaning a candidate who won first place in a state examination during the Choson period. The object of the game is to obtain certain combinations of three pieces, which are called perfect tablets. Golpae are also known as hopae, "foreign tablets" (Culin, 1958: 104) or Chinese tablets. According to Hough, the arrangement of the pips on Korean dominoes is identical to the Chinese. The golpae set is used for a variety of games, including gambling and fortune telling (DHM ('Doseol Hanguk oegyo-sa yeonpyo' or The Folkcrafts of Korea), 1980: 331). Bernadou Field Notes 104 "...Korean dominoes. With these are played games similar to our own." Collected in Seoul. Ref: Hough Korean Catalog pl. XXIV, fig. 3; Bernadou Field Notes 104" [from: "An Ethnography of the Hermit Kingdom: The J.B. Bernadou Korean Collection 1884-1885", Chang-su Cho Houchins, 2004, number 151]
label: Record Last Modified
content: 16 Mar 2024
label: Specimen Count
content: 25
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: E77024-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Game Piece
physicalDescription: label: Length
content: 4.1 cm
label: Width
content: 3.8 cm