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Hearst Museum object titled Slippers, accession number 9-21293a,b, described as Pair of lavender child’s slippers with tiger tip. Uppers damask overcast at upper edge with olive green cross stitches. Hunter green fringed tiger mask with “wang” sign (for king of the animals) stitched on forehead, appliquéd black and white eyes and white nose and hunter green long mustache and embroidered eyebrows. (Fide: Ilse Fang, 8/28/2001: tiger chases away evil spirits.) Ears purple satin. Small olive green crosses along upper edge of mask. Uppers lined with woodblock-printed white cotton, one side of four in a different pattern (analogous to upper edge of miniature paper slippers). Quilted cloth sole stitched to uppers with twine and covered with blue and white denim below, with black and mouse gray cloth above. Overall length: 12.5 cm; width at toes: 5.6 cm.