Boot (footwear)

Museum number:
9-22152a,b
Permalink:
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Alternate number:
BY.T-208 and T-208 (original number)
Accession number:
Acc.4737
Description:
woman's dress boots; leather multi-layered sole - natural leather, green dyed leather, narrow gold bead, heavy cotton twine braid; uppers are wool felt (red, green, blue, black) with embroidered insets in floral motifs at toe, atop foot and at ankle (both front and back). boot top is open down the back at the calf for 23cm and bound with blue cotton fabric.
Donor:
Estate of G. Eleanore Murray, Estate of Theos C. Bernard, and Theos C. Bernard
Collection place:
Tibet
Verbatim coll. place:
Tibet
Culture or time period:
Tibetan
Collector:
Theos C. Bernard
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Embroidery (visual works) and Shoes (footwear)
Function:
2.4 Fine Clothes and Accoutrements not used exclusively for status or religious purposes
Production date:
20th century
Accession date:
March 12, 2004
Context of use:
clothing
Department:
Asia (except western Russia)
Images:
Hearst Museum object titled Boot (footwear), accession number 9-22152a,b, described as woman's dress boots; leather multi-layered sole - natural leather, green dyed leather, narrow gold bead, heavy cotton twine braid; uppers are wool felt (red, green, blue, black) with embroidered insets in floral motifs at toe, atop foot and at ankle (both front and back). boot top is open down the back at the calf for 23cm and bound with blue cotton fabric.

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