Woman's Undertrousers (Gojaengi)
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. Cotton. The undertrousers have a gathered waist, tying band, and open crotch. They are worn between the sok-sokgot (cat. no. 33) and dan-sokgot (cat. no. 32). They are not lined. Hough's entry for this item reads "outer drawers," and adds: "Every Korean lady wears not less than four body garments." He means three layers of undergarment in addition to a skirt. The fabrics used for this type of undergarment are cotton, hemp, and linen. In modern usage, a gojaengi is a burial garment (Kim, 1988b: 45). Bernadou Field Notes 118 "... outer drawers. Put on over the soksok-kot [sok-sokgot] and girdle. The strings fasten on the left side under the arm. Ofcotton cloth." Collected in Seoul. Ref: Hough Korean Catalog p. 449; Bernadou Field Notes 118." [from: "An Ethnography of the Hermit Kingdom: The J.B. Bernadou Korean Collection 1884-1885", Chang-su Cho Houchins, 2004, number 31]
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: E77100-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Undertrousers
physicalDescription: label: Length
content: 105.3 cm
label: Width
content: 40 cm
label: Width
content: 124.4 cm