Man's Fine-Tooth Comb (Chambit)
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. Bamboo. Here a series of thin bamboo slivers are fastened between bamboo cleats to form a double-tooth comb. Hough remarks that all classes of Koreans give "great attention to the care of the hair." Bernadou Field Notes 24 "... Fine comb, of bamboo. The best come from the province of Cholla-do in the south. There is a great trade in these combs in Korea and every man and boy carries both a coarse and a fine one in a small bag secured at the waist by a cord, and which serves as a pocket." Collected in Seoul. Ref: Hough Korean Catalog p. 460; Bernadou Field Notes 24" [from: "An Ethnography of the Hermit Kingdom: The J.B. Bernadou Korean Collection 1884-1885", Chang-su Cho Houchins, 2004, number 87]
label: Record Last Modified
content: 13 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: E77045-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Comb
physicalDescription: label: Length
content: 9.6 cm
label: Width
content: 5.2 cm