Pair Of Man's Winter Socks (Som Beoseon)
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. Cotton with cotton padding. Bernadou and Hough call these socks "stockings." Hough adds, "padded with raw cotton; the rigidity of the Korean shoe renders this necessary." Padded socks (som beoseon) were worn by men and women in the winter (cat. no. 36). Bernadou Field Notes 128 "... Cotton padded stocking, worn by people of the middle and upper classes. The trousers are folded at the bottom over the tops of the po-syen [beoseon]; and held in place by the garters...." Collected in Seoul. Ref: Hough Korean Catalog p. 451; Bernadou Field Notes 128" [from: "An Ethnography of the Hermit Kingdom: The J.B. Bernadou Korean Collection 1884-1885", Chang-su Cho Houchins, 2004, number 46]
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: E77098-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Sock
physicalDescription: label: Height
content: 30.5 cm
label: Length
content: 23.5 cm