Accession No
1988.400 A-D
Description
Pair of leather slippers. Uppers of brown-red leather embroidered with gold silk brocade, darker red-brown soles with silk stitching extending to long leather tassel at toe. V-shaped throatline with extended tassel; further tassel at heal. Green vertical stitching at heal and small coloured stitches in brocade. Both slippers fitted with wooden shoe trees with copper alloy circular handles and letters ‘L’ and ‘R’ engraved in sides.
Place
Asia; South Asia; India
Period
Source
Cra'ster, George (Colonel) [field collector]; Cra'ster, Mary Desborough [donor]
Department
Anth
Reference Numbers
1988.400 A-D
Cultural Affliation
Material
Leather; Silver Thread; Wood; Metal
Local Term
Measurements
98mm x 113mm x 298mm
Events
Description (Physical description)
Pair of shoes made of leather with stitching in silver thread, styled in Oriental fashion. Both shoes fitted with wooden trees.
Event Date
Author: maa
Context (Field collection)
Collected by Colonel George Cra'ster in 1928.
Event Date 1928
Author: maa
Context (Related Documents)
Accession register: 'Worn by Colonel George Cra'ster c. 1928'
Event Date 1988
Author: Heather Donoghue
Description (Physical description)
Pair of leather slippers. Uppers of brown-red leather embroidered with gold silk brocade, darker red-brown soles with silk stitching extending to long leather tassel at toe. V-shaped throatline with extended tassel; further tassel at heal. Green vertical stitching at heal and small coloured stitches in brocade. Both slippers fitted with wooden shoe trees with copper alloy circular handles and letters ‘L’ and ‘R’ engraved in sides.
Event Date 27/11/2023
Author: Heather Donoghue
FM:80315
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