Painting: Tiger, Magpie, Pine, And Sacred Fungus (Songho-Do)
date: label: Accession Date
content: 24 Feb 1886
name: label: Donor Name
content: Ensign U S N John B. Bernadou
notes: label: Notes
content: From card [for all 12 paintings, E77052-0 through E77052-11]: "12 Glue-color folk paintings on paper, used for room decoration or storeroom door amulets. - Chang-su Houchins. See pp. 468-9 in "The Bernadou, Allen, and Jouy Korean Collections in the U.S. National Museum" by Walter Hough in USNM AR 1891. All 12 paintings are described there."
label: Notes
content: From card [for E77052-11], painting original # 12: "Glue color folk painting on paper, of a ferocious tiger (maen'ho—do). Used for hanging outside of the storeroom or the gate to the court yard."
label: Notes
content: "Late 19th century. Color on paper. A large, white tiger with a long tail curling upward to a pine branch, has fur rendered in geometric stripes, dots and roundels. A small magpie sits on a pine branch. Three pulloch'o, sacred fungus, are in front of the tiger's mouth as if he were about to consume them in order to attain immortality himself. A certain element of humor can be detected in the tiger's expression in the presence of his adversary, the magpie. The magpie announces the tiger's whereabouts to villagers. This is the reason for the appearance of "tiger and magpie painting" (Jo, 1970:8-15; ibid., 1974b:20). Hough, in his customary manner, dismisses the painting as a "Gaudy picture bought by the common people." ... Collected in Seoul. Ref: Hough Korean Catalog p. 469; Houchins, 1982: 61-63." [from: "An Ethnography of the Hermit Kingdom: The J.B. Bernadou Korean Collection 1884-1885", Chang-su Cho Houchins, 2004, number 127]
label: Record Last Modified
content: 14 Mar 2024
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Seoul, South Korea, Asia
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 016970
label: USNM Number
content: E77052-11
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Painting
physicalDescription: label: Height
content: 100 cm
label: Width
content: 62.5 cm