Hat For Porter (Beonggeoji)
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. Black felt. The felt used for this type of hat is usually mixed with pig hair (Seok, 1992a: 217-219). Stiffening of the felt creates a smooth surface. The hat's shape is similar to a soldier's hat (cat. no. 72), without elaborate and colorful ornamentation. Hough writes that this type of unadorned black felt hat is "worn by chair coolies [sic], hostelers, and road runners who accompany noblemen when on a journey." Bernadou comments, "... Pang-ko-tji [beonggeojz] or hat, as worn by soldiers in attendance at the Yanluns [yamen, amun]and by some of the lowest grades of military officers. The white ornaments are cut in the form of the device in the centre of the Korean flag." (Bernadou Field Notes 10) Collected in Seoul. Ref: Hough Korean Catalog pl. XIX, middle fig. 6; Bernadou Field Notes 10" [from: "An Ethnography of the Hermit Kingdom: The J.B. Bernadou Korean Collection 1884-1885", Chang-su Cho Houchins, 2004, number 73]
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: E77061-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Hat
physicalDescription: label: Height
content: 10.2 cm
label: Diameter
content: 38.3 cm