Shoe
- Museum number:
- 9-11323a,b
- Permalink:
- ark:/21549/hm210911323a@2cb
- Alternate number:
- 457 (original number)
- Accession number:
- Acc.2696
- Description:
- shoes, wedding, for bridegroom; leather, red velvet, embroidered with gold-colored thread and sequins; 33 cm length; 9.5 cm width each
- Donor:
- Mr. and Mrs. Thomas J. Ready, Jr. Fund
- Collection place:
- India
- Verbatim coll. place:
- India
- Culture or time period:
- Indian
- Collector:
- Renaldo "Ronald" Maduro
- Collection date:
- unknown
- Materials:
- Leather and Velvet (fabric weave) (leather body faced with velvet , embroidered with gold thread, sequins; color: red and gold)
- Object type:
- ethnography
- Object class:
- Shoes (footwear)
- Function:
- 5.3 Objects relating to the Secular and Quasi-religious Rites, Pageants, and Drama
- Accession date:
- November 11, 1970
- Context of use:
- Worn by bridegrooms at weddings
- Department:
- Asia (except western Russia)
- Dimensions:
- width 9.5 centimeters and length 33 centimeters
- Images:
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- Legacy documentation:
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