Summer Floor Mat (Wanggol Dotjarl; Wanchoseok)
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. Woven arrowroot-rush and hemp. This mat is decorated with green, purple, and red stripes, and the side of the mat is fringed. The sedge mat is used for covering floors in summer. Hough's entry reads: "Rush Mat. Made by hand on a weighted loom" with hemp warp and rush woof, which form the fringe at the side of the mat. Wanggol is a type of material woven from sedge and string, which is made of the dried inner bark of arrowroot (Ha and Cheon, 1994: 135). Collected in Seoul. Ref: Hough Korean Catalog p. 443." [from: "An Ethnography of the Hermit Kingdom: The J.B. Bernadou Korean Collection 1884-1885", Chang-su Cho Houchins, 2004, number 102]
label: Record Last Modified
content: 14 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: E77010-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Mat
physicalDescription: label: Length
content: 183.2 cm
label: Width
content: 61.2 cm