Boot (footwear)

Museum number:
9-22153a,b
Permalink:
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Alternate number:
9-22153, BY.T-209, and T-209 (original number)
Accession number:
Acc.4737
Description:
monk's short boots made with thick leather and layered fabric soles, and finished with a fine gold leather bead where sole attaches to shoe. uppers of maroon velvet decorated with variegated white to blue braid and narrow piping of dark brown leather from toe to top of boot, around foot and up back. finished with a band of black velvet at top and lined with 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
Materials:
Leather
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
Department:
Asia (except western Russia)
Images:
Hearst Museum object titled Boot (footwear), accession number 9-22153a,b, described as monk's short boots made with thick leather and layered fabric soles, and finished with a fine gold leather bead where sole attaches to shoe. uppers of maroon velvet decorated with variegated white to blue braid and narrow piping of dark brown leather from toe to top of boot, around foot and up back. finished with a band of black velvet at top and lined with cotton fabric.

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