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In colossal hats like this, of plaited straw with a hexagonal rim and a
superficial area of six square feet, Korean mourners screen their faces
sometimes for as long as three years
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Pedlars are licensed in Korea and form an organized guild. This woman
does a remunerative trade in the cheap shoes of twisted grass worn,
and quickly worn out, by the poorer classes throughout the country
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