Tricolored Bag (Samseong Jumeoni)
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. Yellow cotton with blue silk lining. Attached to the folded mouth of this tricolored bag or pouch is a green string used for opening or closing the bag and for hanging it from the waist. This bag held money and a variety of small personal articles. It is sometimes called bok jumeoni(the bag that brings luck), as it became a popular vehicle for gift exchange (Seok, 1992a: 192). There is a special type of bok jumeoni, which is a round, colored silk pouch with embroidered decoration and tasseled tie string. This gift pouch contained a single roasted bean wrapped in paper. Originally, bok jumeoni was used as a royal gift on the new year's first "day of the boar," considered auspicious according to the sexagesimal cycle. Wearing a bok jumeoni on the "day of the boar" was believed to ensure good luck all year long (Choe, 1993: 190191; Jang, 1992: 62, illustration number 57; Jang, 1999: 11 0-111). Collected in Seoul. Ref: Hough Korean Catalog p. 449; Bernadou Field Notes 105." [from: "An Ethnography of the Hermit Kingdom: The J.B. Bernadou Korean Collection 1884-1885", Chang-su Cho Houchins, 2004, number 27]
label: Record Last Modified
content: 11 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: E77023-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Bag
physicalDescription: label: Length
content: 15.5 cm
label: Width
content: 14 cm