Hat For Student At Civil Examinations (Yugeon)
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. Black cotton. This hat has a rectangular centerpiece and triangular side flaps. It was worn by students at the state examinations held to recruit eligible court officials and also during Confucian rituals (Kim, 1988b: 383). Bernadou Field Notes 48 "... examination cap. Of stiffened cotton, and is black in color. Worn only at literary examinations and there by all students." Collected in Seoul. Ref: Hough Korean Catalog pi. XIX, middle fig. 2; Bernadou Field Notes 48" [from: "An Ethnography of the Hermit Kingdom: The J.B. Bernadou Korean Collection 1884-1885", Chang-su Cho Houchins, 2004, number 69]
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: E77057-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Hat
physicalDescription: label: Height
content: 22.9 cm
label: Diameter
content: 17.8 cm