Mourner's Rectangular Fan (Poseon)
date: label: Accession Date
content: 24 Feb 1886
name: label: Donor Name
content: Ensign U S N John B. Bernadou
notes: label: Notes
content: "This fan is constructed of lined hemp cloth fastened to two bamboo rods, also covered with hemp cloth. A thin strip connects the two rods at the lower end. It conceals the mourner's face outdoors. Bernadou Field Notes 35 "... hand screen held in front of the face when walking in the street and roads. This is worn with: [mourning hat]" (cat. no. E77066). Collected in Seoul. Ref: Hough Korean Catalog p. 455; Bernadou Field Notes 35" [from: "An Ethnography of the Hermit Kingdom: The J.B. Bernadou Korean Collection 1884-1885", Chang-su Cho Houchins, 2004, number 63]
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: E77087-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Fan
physicalDescription: label: Length
content: 55.3 cm
label: Width
content: 34.3 cm