- Collection type
- Object
- Description
- Slippers with a pointed turned up toe and slight upstanding edge along the sides and around the heel.
- Long description
- The sole is of leather with an embroidered red felt lining on the inside. The toe upper is elaborately embroidered in gold and silver thread and is decorated with a silk pompom
- Person
- Maker Unknown Maker
- Field collector Unknown Collector
- PRM source Augustus Henry Lane Fox Pitt Rivers founding collection
- Date / Period
- Date made: Possibly before 1876
- Date collected
- ?Prior to 1876
- Acquisition information
- Donated: 1884
- Materials and processes
- Material Textile, Material Animal Leather Skin, Material Felt Wool Textile Animal, Material Yarn Metallic, Material Silk Textile Animal, Process Embroidered, Process Felted, Process Woven
- Dimensions
- Length 237 mm
- Object numbers
- Accession number: 1884.92.18.1-2
Search terms: Clothing Footgear, Shoe
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