Thin indoor women's shoes of a single piece of leather gathered together up the back of the heel and down the toe which is pointed. A long length of plaited red wool is threaded through two perforations in the leather at the heel

Collection type: Object
Description: Thin indoor women's shoes of a single piece of leather gathered together up the back of the heel and down the toe which is pointed. A long length of plaited red wool is threaded through two perforations in the leather at the heel
Geographical reference: Faroe Islands (Autonomous Region of Denmark)
Europe > Northern Europe > Faroe Islands (Autonomous Region of Denmark)
Cultural groups: Danish
Person: Field collector Thomas Nelson Annandale; PRM source Thomas Nelson Annandale
Date / Period: Date made: Before 1896
Date collected: By 1896
Acquisition information: Donated: 14/02/1896
Materials and processes: Material Animal Leather Skin, Material Wool Yarn Animal, Process Plaited, Process Perforated
Dimensions: Length 255 mm
Object numbers: Accession number: 1896.6.2.1-2
Research and responses: For the donor's account of his visit to Føroyar [the Faroe Islands], see The Faroes and Iceland: Studies in Island Life, by Thomas Annandale (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1905). [JC 4 12 2014]

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