Pillow End-Plaque (Begaenmo)
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. Reverse-painted oxhorn roundel mounted on wood. The Korean pillow is made of a cylindrical case stuffed with buckwheat husks or millet, which requires plaques to be fastened to both ends of the pillow. Wooden pillow-ends have holes bored around the edges so that they can be sewn to the pillow. Elaborate design motifs used for pillow end plaques are based on "three main themes, which are long life, good luck, and protection against misfortune" (Strom, 1973: 29). The evergreen pine here symbolizes long life, while the tiger represents amuletic power to guard against misfortune. The materials used for pillow-ends, size and method of decoration vary. Collected in Seoul. Ref: Hough Korean Catalog pl. XXII, fig. 1; Published "MBM 'Miguk bangmul-gwan sojang Hanguk munhwajae' or The Korean Relics in the United States", 1989: 142)" [from: "An Ethnography of the Hermit Kingdom: The J.B. Bernadou Korean Collection 1884-1885", Chang-su Cho Houchins, 2004, number 109]
label: Record Last Modified
content: 14 Mar 2024
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Seoul, South Korea, Asia
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 016970
label: USNM Number
content: E77035-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Pillow
physicalDescription: label: Diameter
content: 15.3 cm