Raincoat (Yusam; Yuji Biot)
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. Oiled Paper. Sesame oil makes this paper garment waterproof The coat resembles a man's outerrobe, except the front closure is by means of a cotton loop and the button is in the shape of a lotus flower bud. Hough mentions that the straw raincoat is used by the Chinese and the Japanese as well as the Koreans, adding that men of the serving class wear the straw coat. Bernadou Field Notes 109 "... Of oiled paper. You-Sam [yusam] or rain coat. Made at Song-do. Such are in common use in Seoul; in the country they are often replaced by the rough garments of straw of which there is a specimen in the Japanese collection [referring probably to the straw rain coat, mino, made of layers of wide strands of straw, brought by Commodore Perry from Japan (Houchins, 1995: 105)] in the us. National Museum." Collected in Songdo (modern Kaesong, Kyeonggi province). Ref: Hough Korean Catalog p. 458; Bernadou Field Notes 109. [from: "An Ethnography of the Hermit Kingdom: The J.B. Bernadou Korean Collection 1884-1885", Chang-su Cho Houchins, 2004, number 76]
label: Notes
content: Stored in Pod 4 oversize whole unit. Advance arrangements are needed for access.
label: Notes
content: From second card: "Made of the oiled paper used variously in Japan. Rain Coat of oiled paper, [two Hangul characters] you-sam Made at Song-do. Such are in common use in Seoul; in the country they are often replaced by the rough garments of straw of which there is a specimen in the Japanese collection in the U.S. National Museum."
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: E77017-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Raincoat
physicalDescription: label: Length
content: 162 cm
label: Width
content: 72 cm
label: Length
content: 38 cm
label: Width
content: 38 cm