| Accession Nr.: | A.4760.2.19.4. |
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| Type: | photograph |
| Artist/Maker: | |
| Date of production: |
ca. 1900
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| Place of production: | |
| Acquisition: | collection of Dezső Bozóky |
| Materials/Techniques: | gelatin silver print |
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| Dimensions: | height: 10 cm width: 14 cm |
The album containing Dezső Bozóky's travelphotos (second). Related item: A.4760.2. (album). Unknown photographer. Photograph purchased by Dezső Bozóky. Children playing the target game associated with the 15th day of the first lunar month, trying to throw coins and ceramic discs in a semicircular hole. Ropes of straw hung above their heads, warning strangers not to enter the house because there is a newborn inside. According to the custom that is observed to this day, objects indicating the child’s sex are also twined in the taboo rope (geumjul).
When a boy is born, red peppers, charcoal and straw is twisted in the rope; when a girl, charcoal, dry seaweed and pine branches.
The rope was usually removed after three weeks. It is unclear what is twisted in the rope in the picture. Published in: Kim 1987, 17.
Other publication: Kim, Hyun Sik (ed.): Yi-Dynasty through Pictures (II), Seoul, Ideal International Co./Seomundang, 1987.
When a boy is born, red peppers, charcoal and straw is twisted in the rope; when a girl, charcoal, dry seaweed and pine branches.
The rope was usually removed after three weeks. It is unclear what is twisted in the rope in the picture. Published in: Kim 1987, 17.
Other publication: Kim, Hyun Sik (ed.): Yi-Dynasty through Pictures (II), Seoul, Ideal International Co./Seomundang, 1987.