Three-Tiered Storage Chest (Samcheung-Jang)
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. Chinese juniper wood with white-brass fittings and Chinese-character appliques. This three-tiered chest is for storing cloth. It is of Chinese juniper and the metal fittings are in white brass known in Korean as baekdong. The center of each front panel is decorated with a Chinese character commonly known as ssang-hui (double joy) of silver inlaid in copper. Fitted behind the front panels are either drawers or open shelves...Collected in Seoul. Ref: Hough Korean Catalog pl. XV; Bernadou Field Notes 115." [from: "An Ethnography of the Hermit Kingdom: The J.B. Bernadou Korean Collection 1884-1885", Chang-su Cho Houchins, 2004, number 96]
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: E77008-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Chest
physicalDescription: label: Height
content: 112 cm
label: Length
content: 61.2 cm
label: Width
content: 76.5 cm