Image: A Corean in mourning clothes

Description: Collection: Willard Dickerman Straight and Early U.S.-Korea Diplomatic Relations, Cornell University Library Title: A Corean in mourning clothes Date: ca. 1904 Place: Asia: South Korea Type: Postcards/Ephemera Description: "When 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." 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. Inscription/Marks: Image imprinted with legend: 'A Corean in mourning clothes.' Identifier: 1260.74.11.04 Persistent URI: http://hdl.handle.net/1813.001/5xrt There are no known U.S. copyright restrictions on this image. The digital file is owned by the Cornell University Library which is making it freely available with the request that, when possible, the Library be credited as its source. We had some help with the geocoding from Web Services by Yahoo!
Title: A Corean in mourning clothes
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