Pair Of Baby Socks (Tarae Beoseon)
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. Padded and quilted white muslin with embroidered silk. Exhibited, S. Dillon Ripley International Center, Smithsonian Institution, "Generations: A Universal Family Album," 11 September 1987-31 March 1998. The upper section of each sock has diagonal stitching, the lower section has vertical. They have deeply cut insteps, rounded heels and sharply turned toes curving upwards. Pink tying ribbons are stitched midway up the back for tying around the ankles. Red, blue, and green floral decoration on the lower front symbolizes long life, and the blue silk sangmo (pompons or ball tassels) attached to the tip of the toe represent prosperity. Red pompons signify a girl child. These types of socks are worn on the baby's first birthday or on holidays. Oversized baby socks, like these, symbolize growth and long life (Kim, 1988b: 492 for symbolism connected with decorative motifs; Jang, 1999: 172173, illustration numbers 194-196, for varied modes of decoration and quilt patterns applied). Hough notes the socks are constructed with regard to shape of the shoe and not of the foot. Bernadou Field Notes 142 "... stockings." Collected in Seoul. Ref: Hough Korean Catalog p. 448; Bernadou Field Notes 142; Exhibited, S. Dillon Ripley International Center, Smithsonian Institution, "Generations: A Universal Family Album," 11 September 1987-31 March 1998" [from: "An Ethnography of the Hermit Kingdom: The J.B. Bernadou Korean Collection 1884-1885", Chang-su Cho Houchins, 2004, number 22]
label: Record Last Modified
content: 11 Mar 2024
label: Specimen Count
content: 2
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: E77073-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Sock
physicalDescription: label: Length
content: 15.3 cm
label: Width
content: 12 cm
label: Width
content: 14 cm