[Western man and Korean laborer resting by statues]

Collection: Willard Dickerman Straight and Early U.S.-Korea Diplomatic Relations, Cornell University Library

 

Title: [Western man and Korean laborer resting by statues]

 

Date: 1905

 

Place: Asia: South Korea: Seoul

 

Type: Photographs

 

Description: When a group of Americans with Alice Roosevelt visited Korea in 1905, they probably toured the Yi Dynasty kings' tombs. Regarding the phyisical setting of the scene, the 'Kings of Yi Dynasty were guarded in death by stone warriors and animals--a custom that was presumably introduced into Korea during the Silla period from China.' Source: Kim, Chewon. Seoul, 1969, p. 129.

 

Identifier: 1260.61.071.02

 

Persistent URI: hdl.handle.net/1813.001/5xps

 

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