446 REPORT OF NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1891. 



Saucer (Gint-goo-i). Brass; with lid. For game or some rare meat. 



Diameter, 3f inches ; height, 1^ inches. 



Seoul, Korea. 130894 



Collected by Dr. H. N. Allen. 



Saucer (Na-mool-jup-si). Brass; with lid. For some rare vegetable, 

 either cooked or served as a salad. 



Diameter, 3f inches; height, li inches. 



Seoul, Korea. 130900 



Collected by Dr. H. N. Allen. 



Bowl (Hab). Circular; brass; with lid. For holding cakes. 



Diameter, 4 inches ; height, 2i inches. 



Seoul, Korea. 130906 



Collected by Dr. H. N. Allen. 



Saucer for wine cup (Jan-ba chim). Brass plate on which the wiue 

 cup is placed on the anniversary of the death ot the ancestor. 



Diameter, 4f inches. 130903 



Seoul, Korea. 



Collected by Dr. H. N. Allen. 



BowL (Ba-ri). Globular; brass; with lid. 

 Diameter, 3i inches ; height, 4 inches. 



Seoul, Korea. 130907 



Collected by Dr. H. N. Allen. 

 Used by a little girl in winter lor rice. 



Axe (Dok-ki). Iron. Narrow, wedge-like blade. Curved poll with 

 narrow^ face. 



Length, 7^ inches; width, 2^ inches. 



Fusan, Korea. 129495 



Collected by P. L. Jouy. 



Generally used in timbering. 



THE LAUNDRY. 



Seam iron (In-to). Bar of iron terminating in a head, set into a 

 wooden handle. Kude, chisel ornamentation on bar. Resembles 

 a soldering iron. PI. xvii, upper figure. 



Length, 12f inches. 



Seoul, Korea, 1885. 77026 



Collected by Ensign J. B. Beruadou, U. S. Navy. 



Used to iron down seams of clothing or for creasing quilted Avork. 



Ironing sticks (Pang-numg-i). Hard wood sticks shaped like a base- 

 ball bat, used for ironing or mangling clothes. PI. xvii, lower 

 figure. 



Length, 16f inches; diameter, 1 inch. 



Seoul, Korea, 1885. 77027 



Collected by Ensign J. B. Bernadou, U. S. Navy. 



Winter clothes are ripped apart for washing, boiled in wood-ash lye, beaten 

 on stones in streams, starched with rice starch, dried, piled in heaps, and finally 

 pounded over a wooden roller with clubs till the fiber takes on a remarkable 

 gloss and pliability. The parts are sewed together and the seams ironed down 

 with the seam iron. 



