Comb Cleaner And Hair Parter (Bitchigae)
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. Horn. This thin strip of horn has a shield-shaped end and pointed tip. The pointed end may be used to clean the teeth of a comb; it may be used by a woman to part the hair in a straight line down the center of the head; or the flat shield-like end can apply oil to the head. Collected in Seoul. Ref. Hough Korean Catalog p. 459; Bernadou Field Notes 102" [from: "An Ethnography of the Hermit Kingdom: The J.B. Bernadou Korean Collection 1884-1885", Chang-su Cho Houchins, 2004, page 72, #84, listed under incorrect catalog number E77115]
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: E77113-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Comb Cleaner
physicalDescription: label: Length
content: 10.2 cm