[2 Koreans in their mourning dress]
- Title:
- [2 Koreans in their mourning dress]
- Collection:
- Willard D. Straight in Korea
- Date:
- ca. 1904
- Country:
- South Korea
United States - ID Number:
- 1260.60.09.48.03
- Collection Number:
- 1260
- File Name:
- 1260.60.09.48.03.tif
- Work Type:
- Photographs
- Subject:
- Costume
Mourners - Measurement:
- 7.8 x 13 (centimeters)
- Description:
- eWhen mourners went outdoors, they wore a long coat over their mourning dress. The coat sleeves differed in width according to social class: wider sleeves for upper classes and narrower sleeves for lower classes. All mourners wore conical hats made of finely-cut bamboos on the outside and of sedge on the inside.e They carried a 'poson' (fan made from hemp cloth) in order to cover their faces. Source: Kwon, O-chang. Inmurhwaro ponun Choson sidae uri ot, 1998, p. 90. In this picture a man on left wears his sangbok (mourning dress) with a conical hat made of finely-cut bamboo, but the other on right wears a regular every day dress with a mourning cap. They stand in front of a building while people behind them are watching.
- Cite As:
- Willard Dickerman Straight papers, #1260. Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library.
- Repository:
- Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library
- Archival Collection:
- Willard Dickerman Straight papers
- Format:
- Image
- Rights:
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