Boot (footwear)

Museum number:
9-22149a,b
Permalink:
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Alternate number:
BY.T-211 and T-211 (original number)
Accession number:
Acc.4737
Description:
traditional monk's (lama) dress boots. boot upper constructed of tightly quilted khaki fabric reinforced to make it very stiff, sole of tightly braided/ woven cording. boot tops a dark brown and maroon (velvet?) fabrics bound at top with a black fabric band which is also used to line the boots. back of calf is split 26cm and bound with khaki fabric. top of foot decorated with an inset of patterned 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:
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 - lama's dress boots
Department:
Asia (except western Russia)
Images:
Hearst Museum object titled Boot (footwear), accession number 9-22149a,b, described as traditional monk's (lama) dress boots. boot upper constructed of tightly quilted khaki fabric reinforced to make it very stiff, sole of tightly braided/ woven cording. boot tops a dark brown and maroon (velvet?) fabrics bound at top with a black fabric band which is also used to line the boots. back of calf is split 26cm and bound with khaki fabric. top of foot decorated with an inset of patterned fabric.

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