Woman's Sash (Heoritti)
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. This wide, lined cotton band is not a waistband in a strict sense, because it is worn over the breasts, and then covered by a skirt. Wearing this type ofsash was practical during the latter part ofthe Chason Period when a woman's jacket became markedly short. Heoritti are either lined or unlined and padded for winter use. The color is invariably white and common fabrics used are fine cotton or bleached pongee (Kim, 1988b: 529). Bernadou Field Notes 122 "... girdle. Holding up the sok-sok-ket [sok-sokgot; cat. no. 33]. This wide strip is fastened around the waist. The ends of it meet in front; the short string coming on the right side. The left or long string is taken once around the body and fastened to the short string on the right side. This band is placed so as not to lap over at the hips, but to extend well up under the breasts, and serves as a support for the strings fastening the other garments." Collected in Seoul." Ref: Hough Korean Catalog p. 449; Bernadou Field Notes 122" [from: "An Ethnography of the Hermit Kingdom: The J.B. Bernadou Korean Collection 1884-1885", Chang-su Cho Houchins, 2004, number 30]
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: E77103-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Sash
physicalDescription: label: Length
content: 95.4 cm
label: Width
content: 24.1 cm