Red leather shoes worn as slippers the heel back being pressed down upon the sole with thick leather sole. There is a very long toe upper and the heel upper is cut with a tongue. The sole is lined on the inside with red the heel part with yellow and the toe with white leather. The toe is ornamented with a green leather diamond bound with the same binding as the edge and two parallel lines down the centre and one across near the edge. The heel is decorated by intersecting lines

Collection type: Object
Description: Red leather shoes worn as slippers the heel back being pressed down upon the sole with thick leather sole. There is a very long toe upper and the heel upper is cut with a tongue. The sole is lined on the inside with red the heel part with yellow and the toe with white leather. The toe is ornamented with a green leather diamond bound with the same binding as the edge and two parallel lines down the centre and one across near the edge. The heel is decorated by intersecting lines
Geographical reference: Morocco
Africa > Northern Africa > Morocco
Cultural groups: Moor
Person: Field collector Unknown Collector; PRM source John Charles Richard Freeborn
Date / Period: Date made: Before 1907
Date collected: By 1907
Acquisition information: Donated: 1907
Materials and processes: Material Animal Leather Skin
Dimensions: Length 275 mm
Object numbers: Accession number: 1907.29.2.1-2
Research and responses: JCR Freeborn of Broad Street [Oxford] was a member of the Ashmolean Natural History Society of Oxfordshire from November 1900 [AP 1/11/2002]

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