Baduk Game Cup Lid - 16431C | Collections

Native Name	Baduk
Object Number:	16431C
Current Location:	Collections storage
Culture:	Korean
Provenience:	Korea
Date Made:	19th Century - 1893
Early Date:	1800
Late Date:	1893
Section:	Asian
Materials:	Wood
Credit Line:	Purchased at/from the World's Columbian Exposition, 1893

Description

The baduk game cup consists of 143 polished black pebbles used to play baduk or pebble game (바둑). This unpainted wooden bowl with wooden cover is part of two cups that make up a set. Board (16431A) and two wooden cups (16431B and D) with lids(16431C and E) containing 268(?) black and white pieces (16431F).

Current & Past Exhibitions:

	Chess and Playing-Cards (18 Sep 1895 - 31 Dec 1895)	View Objects in Exhibition

Bibliography:

	[Catalogue] Culin, R. S. 1898. Chess and Playing Cards: Catalogue of games and implements for divination exhibited by the Unites States National Museum in connection with the Department of Archaeology and Paleontology of the University of Pennsylvania at the Cotton States and. : Page/Fig./Plate: 869	View Objects related to this Bibliographic Reference
	[Book] Culin, R. S. 1958. Games of the Orient. : Page/Fig./Plate: pg. 92, Fig. 96	View Objects related to this Bibliographic Reference