Painting: Dog With Collar Of Bells (Munbae-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: From card [for all 12 paintings, E77052-0 through E77052-11]: "12 Glue-color folk paintings on paper, used for room decoration or storeroom door amulets. - Chang-su Houchins. See pp. 468-9 in "The Bernadou, Allen, and Jouy Korean Collections in the U.S. National Museum" by Walter Hough in USNM AR 1891. All 12 paintings are described there."
label: Notes
content: From card [for E77052-8], painting original # 9: "Yi period (1391 - 1910) talismanic painting of a dog wearing collar and bells. Woodblock print colored with glue paint. Korean minhwa (folk painting). 13.5 x 11.25 in. Smithsonian Photographic Services black and white negative number 73-11096"
label: Notes
content: "Late 19th century. Munbae-do are talismanic paintings or prints hung on gates or doors to safeguard the home or warehouse by repulsing evil spirits or actual intruders. The bells suspended from the dog's collar, and the decorations on the bells are amuletic patterns of circles and wavy trails. (Huhm,1980:55-59, and 64). Dog paintings have even been used in shamanistic rituals (Kim, ]979a: 187). The dog here shows his watchfulness with large round eyes and a penetrating backward stare. Hough points out that this is one of a set of four munbae-do in the Bernadou collection (cat. nos.1214-127). Collected in Seoul. Ref: Hough Korean Catalog p. 469; Published (Jo, 1974a: 51); "MBM 'Miguk bangmul-gwan sojang Hanguk munhwajae' or The Korean Relics in the United States", 1989:145" [from: "An Ethnography of the Hermit Kingdom: The J.B. Bernadou Korean Collection 1884-1885", Chang-su Cho Houchins, 2004, number 125]
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: E77052-8
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Painting
physicalDescription: label: Height
content: 34.5 cm
label: Width
content: 29 cm