Man's Headband (Manggeond)
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. Woven horsehair. This rectangular headband has two tying strings attached to each corner of the right-hand side of the band. The ends of the strings pass through two small rings fastened on the opposite side of the band to tie around the topknot. Men wear the headband to push the strands of hair securely up under the band before wearing a hat (cat. no. 67)... Collected in Seoul. Ref: Hough Korean Catalog pl. XIX, lower figure 1; Bernadou Field Notes 103" [from: "An Ethnography of the Hermit Kingdom: The J.B. Bernadou Korean Collection 1884-1885", Chang-su Cho Houchins, 2004, number 53]
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: E77112-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Headband
physicalDescription: label: Length
content: 49.5 cm
label: Width
content: 7.7 cm