Female Mourner's Sash (Samtti; Yojil)
date: label: Accession Date
content: 24 Feb 1886
name: label: Donor Name
content: Ensign U S N John B. Bernadou
notes: label: Notes
content: "Bernadou writes: "... theui [tti] or girdle of hemp. Worn upon the occasion of the death of father. After the death of his mother, the Korean wears a strip of hemp cloth as a girdle instead" (Bernadou Field Notes 32). According to Seok, yojil is worn by the chief mourner's wife with a white headdress called huin-jokduri. Collected in Seoul. Ref: Hough Korean Catalog p. 455; Bernadou Field Notes 32" [from: "An Ethnography of the Hermit Kingdom: The J.B. Bernadou Korean Collection 1884-1885", Chang-su Cho Houchins, 2004, number 62]
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: E77090-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Sash
physicalDescription: label: Length
content: 181.1 cm