Painting: Standing Beauty (Miin-Do)
date: label: Accession Date
content: 24 Feb 1886
name: label: Donor Name
content: Ensign U S N John B. Bernadou
notes: label: Notes
content: Painting: "Late 19th century. Color on paper. The woman's costume is the standard ensemble consisting of a long, floor-length blue skirt or chima and a short jacket called jeogori. Unlike the usual color combination of a blue skirt with either yellow, light jade or white top, the jacket is dark green. Red ribbons hang from the jacket, while the white tie strips hanging from the skirt waist are partly hidden. The woman's left hand held under the chin shows a gold double ring. The coiffure is a chignon, known as nangja-meori, worn exclusively by married women. Binyeo, a long crossbar hairpin with a curved head, is used to secure the chignon. A variety of materials are used for this kind of hairpin, and the sizes vary as well (see cat. no. 38 for detailed descriptions ofvarious types, their methods of decoration and associated symbolism). Hough's entry reads: "Scroll Picture of a Korean Lady" and "This picture gives an idea of the mode of wearing the hair and the house costume of the Korean ladies." ... Collected in Seoul. Ref: Hough Korean Catalog p. 468" [from: "An Ethnography of the Hermit Kingdom: The J.B. Bernadou Korean Collection 1884-1885", Chang-su Cho Houchins, 2004, number 128]
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: E77071-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Painting
physicalDescription: label: Height
content: 122 cm
label: Width
content: 53.4 cm