Woman's Linen Underskirt (Mosi Dan-Sokgot)
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. Linen. This divided skirt, equivalent to a slip, is worn directly under the outerskirt, chima. It has four large pleats on each side, front and back, totaling sixteen. The waistband has two tying ribbons, one long in the front and one short in the back, attached near an opening on the left side. The long and short ribbons are crisscrossed and tied on the left. Fabrics vary according to the season, and are of various colors; mainly white, light blue and gray (Kim, 1988b: 139). Bernadou Field Notes 120 "... Outer drawers, of mosi or grass cloth. Tied at the waist with strings-at the left side." Collected in Seoul. Ref: Hough Korean Catalog p. 449; Bernadou Field Notes 120; Published "MBM 'Miguk bangmul-gwan sojang Hanguk munhwajae' or The Korean Relics in the United States", 1989: 140." [from: "An Ethnography of the Hermit Kingdom: The J.B. Bernadou Korean Collection 1884-1885", Chang-su Cho Houchins, 2004, number 32]
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: E77101-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Under Skirt
physicalDescription: label: Length
content: 81.2 cm
label: Width
content: 39.3 cm
label: Width
content: 64.4 cm