Pillow End-Plaque, Silk Embroidered (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. Embroidered blue silk backed with paper. Unlike the three wooden pillow end-plaques decorated with painted ox horn and mother-of-pearl inlay (cat. nos. 109, 110,111), this fabric plaque is backed with paper. It is embroidered with the taegeuk or yin-yang (the ultimate, the universe, origin of all things). Taegeuk is customarily two comma-shaped patterns coiled in a circle, but here, three instead of two, are arranged in a circle. An eighth-century example found in the Gameunsa temple also uses three (Im, 1986: 68)... Collected in Seoul. Ref: Hough Korean Catalog pl. XXII, fig. 5; Bernadou Field Notes 4" [from: "An Ethnography of the Hermit Kingdom: The J.B. Bernadou Korean Collection 1884-1885", Chang-su Cho Houchins, 2004, number 112]
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: E77034-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Pillow
physicalDescription: label: Diameter
content: 11.3 cm