Pair Of Woman's Decorated Shoes (Unhye)
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. Silk uppers lined with donkey skin and with leather trim and scrollwork and rawhide soles. The white trim on the toes and heels of these shoes is ornamented with cloud scrolls. Rawhide sole and cloth uppers are joined with leather stitching. These shoes may also be called jebi-buri sin (swallow bill shoes), as the toe resembles the bill of a swallow. Hough remarks that these shoes are "neatly finished and ornamented" and "worn by all ladies, except widows." (see Kim, 988b: 375376 For term variants; for illustrations, see HUM ('Hanguk ui mi' or Beauty of Korea), 1988: 49, illustration number 83; Ha and Cheon, 1994: 96-97). Bernadou Field Notes 94 "Woman's shoes. Similar in make to those of men, but covered on the outside with blue cloth, the common color." Collected in Seoul. Ref: Hough Korean Catalog pl. XX, lower fig. 1; Bernadou Field Notes 94" [from: "An Ethnography of the Hermit Kingdom: The J.B. Bernadou Korean Collection 1884-1885", Chang-su Cho Houchins, 2004, number 40]
label: Record Last Modified
content: 11 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: E77016-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Shoe
physicalDescription: label: Length
content: 21.6 cm
label: Width
content: 6.7 cm