pyung-myun-in-hyung (Doll)

Probably made for sale to European and North Americans, possibly under missionary influence. Figures represent woman and baby of late 19th to early 20th century. The woman's hairstyle (bun at nape of neck) indicates that she is married. Babies are commonly carried this way.

Collected by J. H. Morris while he was chief engineer for Seoul Railway, Korea.

Figure representing a woman holding a baby her back on a flat backing of white paper. Front view is depicted of figure which is made of lightly padded cloth to give a three-dimensional effect having each portion made of a separate piece of cloth with painted details. Baby is wearing an olive green shirt and white trousers. Woman is wearing a short light red-pink cotton blouse tied with the same colour ribbon on the right side, an ankle-length purple cotton skirt fastened under the arms with ribbon of the same colour, white socks, and low orange shoes. Two pieces of white flannel hemmed in light red-pink silk are glued to the paper backing.