Child's Ornamental Headdress (Gulle)
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. Silk with embroidery and applied wax and clay beads and Chinese artificial pearls. The headdress is decorated with embroidery, beads and artificial pearls. It is made of three bands: two criss-crossing over the head, and the third headband serving as a frame. Attached to the frame is a ribbon embossed with gold ideographs that read: "subu gangbok (May you be blessed with long life, wealth, health and peace)." A GuIle is worn with tying ribbons around the neck with a bowknot in front or worn with a back hair ribbon known as doturak daenggi (cat. no. 23).... Collected in Seoul. Ref: Hough Korean Catalog p. 448; Bernadou Field Notes 148" [from: "An Ethnography of the Hermit Kingdom: The J.B. Bernadou Korean Collection 1884-1885", Chang-su Cho Houchins, 2004, number 25]
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: E77079-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Headdress
physicalDescription: label: Length
content: 45.7 cm
label: Width
content: 22.8 cm