삼국시대 마장 중 끈목이 사용된 후걸이의 복원

Abstract

In the Three Kingdoms Period, the leaders of Silla and Gaya revealed their power to glamify a horse with various ornaments, especially, the saddle breeching consisted of links and pendants. The saddle breeching was studied focused on the decorative feature and hierarchy according to a shape, quality and combination of links and pendants. There was no study about a strap of the saddle breeching because the limitation of the material. In the 2010s, there was a study how to make and decorate a leather strap, and it was recognized that a plaited cord was used in a harness. By observing the remained organic substance, the vestige of a plaited cord was found in the Cheonmacong of Gyeongju, No. 44 and 45 of Jisandong Tombs of Goryeong and No.4 of Dohangri Tombs of Haman. In the Cheonmacong and No. 44 tomb of Jisandong Tombs, a silk plaited cord was used as a supplement of the leather strap. In the No. 45 tomb of Jisandong Tombs and No.4 tomb of Dohangri Tombs, a silk or leader plaited cord itself consisted the saddle breeching. Especially, the saddle breeching of the No. 45 tomb of Jisandong Tombs was consisted by the parallel plaited cord which had got different colours for each. These straps formed a double-lined saddle breeching or a simple grid- patterned saddle breeching connected by the dome-shaped link, and the leaf-shaped or sword-shaped pendants were suspended at the end of straps. These materials belong to the first half of the 6th century, so in this period the new kind of a strap so-called the plaited cord was used in the saddle breeching, and the decorative feature was Maximized by weaving effect and contrast of colour of the plaited cord.