- Collection type
- Object
- Description
- Child's leather sandal.
- Long description
- Child's leather sandal with remains of two leather straps, which were attached through four perforations in the sole of the sandal. One of a pair with 1887.1.504.2.
- Geographical reference
- Person
- Field collector Swinton Colthurst Holland
- PRM source Oxford University Museum of Natural History
- Date
- Date collected
- By 1886
- Acquisition information
- Transferred: 1886
- Materials and processes
- Material Animal Leather Skin, Process Perforated
- Dimensions
- Width: max 84 mm including straps, Length: max 84 mm
- Object numbers
- Accession number: 1887.1.504.1
- Research and responses
It seems probable that all of Holland's collections came to the OUMNH via George Rolleston, see Rolleston papers Ashmolean Museum GR/A/1 Holland letters [AP 26/09/2012]
See biographies for more information about Swinton Colthurst Holland [AP 28/04/2009]
Search terms: Clothing Footgear, Death, Children and Childcare, Religion, Sandal, Grave Good
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