Woman's Hairpin (Binyeo)
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. Pewter. An unornamented everyday hairpin for the chignon was worn by married won1en until the mid-twentieth century. Binyeo are gold, silver, jade, nickel, wood, bamboo, horn or ivory. Pearls and coral ornament long silver or other metal pins. Enameled phoenix or dragon motif heads were strictly for royal court ladies' ceremonies. In later years, lower-class women popularized such pins by wearing them at their weddings (for illustrations and non1enclature, see Kim, 1988b: 258; DHM ('Doseol Hanguk oegyo-sa yeonpyo' or The Folkcrafts of Korea), 1980: 174-175; HUM ('Hanguk ui mi' or Beauty of Korea), 1988: 72; Jang, 1999: 1833). A long pin with plum blossom and bamboo symbolizes chastity. An unornamented willow or bamboo hairpin represents widowhood and mourning (Adams, 1987: 35). Bernadou Field Notes 138 "... pin for fastening the hair. Of pewter, but often made of silver and sometimes gilt. The hair is done up in a plait, but the end is taken up and back and plaited in." Collected in Seoul. Ref: Hough Korean Catalog p. 450; Bernadou Field Notes 138" [from: "An Ethnography of the Hermit Kingdom: The J.B. Bernadou Korean Collection 1884-1885", Chang-su Cho Houchins, 2004, number 38]
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: E77046-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Hair Pin
physicalDescription: label: Length
content: 18.3 cm