1978.484.91.2: Three Young Korean Women Wearing Traditional Robes, Sitting on Mats,and Preparing to Pound Cloth

Identification and Creation

Object Number

1978.484.91.2

Title

Three Young Korean Women Wearing Traditional Robes, Sitting on Mats,and Preparing to Pound Cloth

Classification

Photographs

Work Type

photograph

Date

c. 1857-1874

Places

Creation Place: East Asia, Korea

Period

Chosŏn dynasty, 1392-1910

Culture

Korean

Persistent Link

https://hvrd.art/o/52105

Physical Descriptions

Medium

Albumen silver print

Technique

Albumen silver print

Dimensions

H. 5.8 x W. 8.8 cm (2 5/16 x 3 7/16 in.)

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line

Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Transfer from Widener Library, Harvard University

Accession Year

1978

Object Number

1978.484.91.2

Division

Asian and Mediterranean Art

Contact

am_asianmediterranean@harvard.edu

Permissions

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Descriptions

Description

The photograph depicts three young Korean women wearing traditional robes and seated outdoors. The women seemingly are two aristocratic women and one attendant; the aristocratic women perhaps are a mother (at the viewer's right) and a daughter (at the left). A roll of cloth occupies the center of the scene; each of the aristocratic women holds a slender wooden club for beating the cloth. Each woman sits on a woven bamboo mat; the bamboo mats rest on a large, coarsely woven mat (of straw?). The women's shoes appear at the front edge of the large mat, nearest the viewer.

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