Women going out
- Title:
- Women going out
- Collection:
- Willard D. Straight in Korea
- Date:
- ca. 1904
- Location:
- Pyongyang, Pyongan-pukto, North Korea
- Country:
- North Korea
United States - ID Number:
- 1260.74.09.01
- Collection Number:
- 1260
- File Name:
- 1260.74.09.01.tif
- Work Type:
- Ephemera
Postcards - Subject:
- Costume
Hats
Women - Measurement:
- 14 x 9 (centimeters)
- Description:
- The inscription imprinted on the postcard in Japanese characters indicates an outing of 'Pyongyang' women. The big objects over women's heads were used to hide their face and to protect from sunshine or rain. This is number three of a series of Japanese postcards on Korean customs. On the 'objects' worn on the head, W.R. Carles comments that 'There seemed to be a passion among the poor people for enormous hats, but those of the women were gigantic, and required both hands to keep them in position.' Source: First Encounters - Korea 1880-1910
edited by Peter A.Underwood with Samuel H. Moffett & Norman R. Sibley, Seoul, 1982. p. 112. - 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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