Boy's Trousers (Aegi Baji)
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. White silk lined with white cotton. These baggy, cotton-lined pongee trousers have an open back and crotch. They are worn by male toddlers, two to three years of age. The belt, is sewn onto the waist. As the crotch opening extends to the ankles, cloth tie-bands, or daenim, attached to the lower ends of the trouser legs, are tied around the ankles. Another term, popularly used for the trousers, is pungcha baji (Seok, 1985: 112; DHM ('Doseol Hanguk oegyo-sa yeonpyo' or The Folkcrafts of Korea), 1980: 211). The word pungcha means literally to block out the [cold] wind. An added panel of fabric hung from the waist to cover the open back (Kim, 1988b: 515). Toddlers' trousers are of cotton, ramie cloth and silk, and they are either lined, unlined or padded. Color variations also exist (Kim, 1988b: 212; Ha and Cheon, 1994: 75, illustration number 59-1). Hough identifies this type of trousers as the one "worn on holidays by young boys." He might have added for young boys of aristocratic families. Bernadou Field Notes 140 "Pa-tji [baji], or trousers. Of silk, and fastened behind with strings." Collected in Seoul. Ref: Hough Korean Catalog p. 448; Bernadou Field Notes 140" [from: "An Ethnography of the Hermit Kingdom: The J.B. Bernadou Korean Collection 1884-1885", Chang-su Cho Houchins, 2004, number 21]
label: Record Last Modified
content: 11 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: E77076-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Trousers
physicalDescription: label: Length
content: 59.6 cm
label: Width
content: 53.3 cm