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1886.1.372.1-2

Skin shoes made from one piece of skin with hair left on the underside of the sole only.

1886.1.372.1-2

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Collection type
Object
Description
Skin shoes made from one piece of skin with hair left on the underside of the sole only.
Long description
Skin shoes made from one piece of skin with hair left on the underside of the sole only. The edges at the toe are sewn together forming a pointed turned up toe with a red woollen pompom at its extremity. The shoe is drawn up all round the edges with thonging leaving long ends for tying at the heel. A black button decorates the toe at the seam.
Geographical reference
Turkey
Asia > Western Asia > Turkey
Person
Field collector C.W. Wilson
PRM source Ashmolean Museum, University of Oxford
Date / Period
Date made: Before 1883?, uncertain
Date collected
?On or before 1883
Acquisition information
Transferred: 04/03/1886
Materials and processes
Material Animal Rawhide Skin, Material Wool Yarn Animal
Dimensions
Length 270 mm
Object numbers
Accession number: 1886.1.372.1-2
Research and responses

Please note that there is no further information about C.W. Wilson on the Donor Index cards at the Ashmolean Museum, Department of Antiquities [L.Ph 26/3/2004]

Search terms: Clothing Footgear, Shoe

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