Folding Fan (Seonja; Buchae)
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. Bamboo sticks covered with oiled mulberry paper. White, oiled mulberry paper is pasted to the front sides of twenty-seven flat bamboo ribs (sal), which are fastened with a steel rivet at the bases. The number of sections or bamboo ribs used for fans vary; in China, folding fans for men have sixteen or twenty sections or at most twenty-four, while women's fans never have less than thirty (Eberhard, 1986: 99). Eberhard claims that "the folding fan appears to have been invented in Korea, does not appear in China till the tenth century AD" (ibid.). Bernadou Field Notes 55 "Large fan, such as used by servants in fanning a nobleman. Of oiled paper and with sticks of bamboo. Made in the southern provinces of Cholla-do and Kyong-sang-do." Collected in Seoul. Ref: Hough Korean Catalog p. 462; Bernadou Field Notes 55." [from: "An Ethnography of the Hermit Kingdom: The J.B. Bernadou Korean Collection 1884-1885", Chang-su Cho Houchins, 2004, number 90]
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: E77020-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Fan
physicalDescription: label: Length
content: 25.5 cm
label: Width
content: 43.5 cm