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

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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.
Department of Asian Art Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum Transfer from Widener Library Harvard University
Title: Three Young Korean Women Wearing Traditional Robes, Sitting on Mats,and Preparing to Pound Cloth
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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