Mourner's Sandals (Eom-Jipsin)
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 9th century. Twisted rice straw with white paper wound around drawstring and heel. The heel yokes and drawstrings of these sandals are covered with white paper. Hough explains that "they differ from common sandals by the paired arrangement of the straw cords which go over sides of the foot." Bernadou writes "...Om-sin. Mourning sandals. Made from ordinary straw sandals by cutting out alternate parts of the straw braiding on the sides" (Bernadou Field Notes 134). The term "om-sin," is a variant of eomjipsin (Martin, Yi, and lang, 1967: 1148)... Collected in Seoul. Ref: Hough Korean Catalog pl. XX, fig. 3; Bernadou Field Notes 134" [from: "An Ethnography of the Hermit Kingdom: The J.B. Bernadou Korean Collection 1884-1885", Chang-su Cho Houchins, 2004, number 65]
label: Record Last Modified
content: 13 Mar 2024
label: Specimen Count
content: 2
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: E77012-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Sandal
physicalDescription: label: Length
content: 25.5 cm
label: Width
content: 8.5 cm