Sandal

Museum number:
9-21582a,b
Permalink:
ark:/21549/hm210921582a@2cb
Alternate number:
MVC-0399 (previous number (MVC number, Mossman-Vitale collection))
Accession number:
Acc.4734
Description:
Sandals; shiny black leather with gold stamped band around sole. Top extends from a leather band which comes up from sole at the end of the toes. Toe band stamped with colored motifs; top of sandals multicolored showiing two female dancers, one with an animal. Number 6 incised on bottom of b. a and b are the same.
Donor:
Kathleen Vitale and Paul Vitale
Collection place:
India
Verbatim coll. place:
India; “genuine leather hand made in Indial” on sole
Collector:
Rachel Gould Mossman
Materials:
Leather
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Sandals
Function:
2.1 Daily Garb
Accession date:
June 23, 2006
Context of use:
Woman’s clothing
Department:
Asia (except western Russia)
Dimensions:
width 9.5 centimeters and length 27.5 centimeters
Comment:
Conservation: new, unused
Images:
Hearst Museum object titled Sandal, accession number 9-21582a,b, described as Sandals; shiny black leather with gold stamped band around sole. Top extends from a leather band which comes up from sole at the end of the toes. Toe band stamped with colored motifs; top of sandals multicolored showiing two female dancers, one with an animal. Number 6 incised on bottom of b. a and b are the same.

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