shoes

Pair of tiny bound foot shoes with upturned, pointed toe. The upper is of blue cotton, embroidered with a floral design at vamp. A vertical heel tab of red and natural coloured cotton at back, attached with two heel lift cotton loops and lined with natured coloured cotton. High wedge heel of wood covered with white cotton with a blue horizontal strip on side. Sole of natural coloured quilted cotton.

See pp.66-67, & pp.116-117. Ko, Dorothy (2001), 'Every Step A Lotus: Shoes for Bound Feet', L.A., Berkeley: University of California Press.

object
MUSEUM NUMBER
nn8549
PLACE
COLLECTION
MATERIAL/TECHNIQUE
cotton; wood; silk thread
CATEGORY
Anthropology: Ethnography
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