Mourner's Hat (Bangnip; Banggat; Sangnip)
date: label: Accession Date
content: 24 Feb 1886
label: Collection Date
content: 1885
name: label: Collector
content: Ensign U S N John B. Bernadou
label: Donor Name
content: Ensign U S N John B. Bernadou
notes: label: Notes
content: 2 parts: hat and frame. Frame consists of two oval wooden hoops intersecting at right angles and a wooded circle covered with twine at the center of the intersection. Two wires cross the circle and two ropes are attached to the circles. This frame was formerly ET1363, but it fits the underside of the hat perfectly. And in the illustration in USNM Annual report for 1891, p 454, pl. 18, fig 1 (lower left), a piece of cord with a knot at the end is shown poking out from under the hat.
label: Notes
content: From 1891 USNM Annual Report, p. 454: "Mourner's hat made of bamboo splints, edges scalloped and finished with braiding. Crowned at apex with rosette of bamboo. A frame to fit over the head is fastened inside and from it hang tying strings of twisted paper."
label: Notes
content: "Late 19th century. Woven bamboo with braided edges. A bamboo disk sits on top of this hat. Inside is a bamboo frame, to cradle the head, from which hang strings of twisted paper. This hat originally was worn as protection from the sunlight or rain but came to be exclusively a mourner's hat in the late Choson period. Hough remarks"... it is considered a grievous breach of etiquette to look into the face of the mourners. Taking advantage of this custom before Korea was opened to foreigners, missionaries disguised themselves as mourners and lived and taught there for a long time without detection." Bernadou Field Notes 106 "... the pang-rip [bangnip] or mourning hat. This is a huge conical structure of split bamboo, the edge being of a quadrilateral shape. It rests upon the head by means of a light frame [included is a drawing] of this shape... the frame being tacked to the hat on the inner side. This huge affair nearly reaches the face; and with it and the poson [poseon, mourner's rectangular cloth fan], the face is completely concealed." Collected in Seoul. Ref: Hough Korean Catalog pl. XVIII, fig. 1; Bernadou Field Notes 106" [from: "An Ethnography of the Hermit Kingdom: The J.B. Bernadou Korean Collection 1884-1885", Chang-su Cho Houchins, 2004, number 58]
label: Record Last Modified
content: 13 Mar 2024
label: Specimen Count
content: 2
place: label: Place
content: Seoul, South Korea, Asia
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Korean
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 016970
label: USNM Number
content: E77066-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Hat
physicalDescription: label: Diameter - Object
content: 64 cm
label: Height - Object
content: 36.8 cm
label: Height
content: 37 cm
label: Diameter
content: 63.5 cm