Pair Of Man's Sandals (Meturi)
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. Woven hemp. These are woven hemp-cord sandals. Woven hemp cords are used for the sale, the open toe uppers, covering only the sides of the foot in the front. A single strand of the woven cord forms the heel yoke, which fits over the back of the heel. Hough's entry for these sandals reads: "Travelers' Sandals." They probably look sturdier than those made of rice straw (cat. no. 81). His rendering of the Korean term, "chip-seki [jipsegi]" also is curious. Jipsegi is the vulgate of jipsin (rice straw sandals). Hough considers these hemp-cord sandals as farmers' sandals. In addition to hemp-cord and rice straw, other materials are used for sandals. For instance, wanggol, a type of plant belonging to the sedge (Cyperacead family, sandals are worn by upper-class men as summer footwear. Bernadou Field Notes 92 "Mel-t'oun [meturi] A better grade, such as are worn by house servants of nobles and the middle classes in the country." Collected in Seoul. Ref: Hough Korean Catalog pl. XX, middle fig. 2; Bernadou Field Notes 92." [from: "An Ethnography of the Hermit Kingdom: The J.B. Bernadou Korean Collection 1884-1885", Chang-su Cho Houchins, 2004, number 80]
label: Record Last Modified
content: 13 Mar 2024
label: Specimen Count
content: 2
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: E77011-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Sandal
physicalDescription: label: Length
content: 25.5 cm
label: Width
content: 8 cm