Male Mourner's Kerchief (Gulgeon; Gulgwan)
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. Plaited and stiffened hemp. The band is lined with paper and stiffened to form a crown-like peak. The folded stiff band is worn over a mourning hat and the sujil, a plaited hemp cloth ring worn just above the forehead. Hough clarifies the manner and occasions of wearing the gulgeon: "the day of death, after decease of parent, at the time of burial and expiration of the first and second year after death." Bernadou includes a drawing of the head ensemble with Bernadou Field Notes 29. Collected in Seoul. Ref: Hough Korean Catalog pl. XVIII, upper fig. 2; Bernadou Field Notes 29" [from: "An Ethnography of the Hermit Kingdom: The J.B. Bernadou Korean Collection 1884-1885", Chang-su Cho Houchins, 2004, number 55]
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: E77085-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Kerchief
physicalDescription: label: Length
content: 33.1 cm
label: Width
content: 30 cm