Context (Field collection)
Collected by Father Carter, who was given the costumes when working as a missionary in the Gold Coast (now Ghana) during the 1920s.

Event Date 1920
Author: rachel hand

Description (Physical description)
Accession register reads: 'Pair of leather sandals'
Event Date 2003
Author: maa

Context (Acquisition Details)
Donated by Elizabeth Blaney.
Father Carter returned to England before WWII. After the War the donor's Godmother, Miss Lucy Cook, became Father Carter's housekeeper. Miss Cook inherited the objects and photograph when Father Carter died in the early 1950s. On Miss Cook's death in 1990, the costume was given to the donor by Miss Cook's nephew, on the understanding that the donor would pass it on to an anthropological or ethnographic collection.
Event Date 2003
Author: rachel hand

Context (Display)
Exhibited in Talking Textiles, a display in the Maudslay Gallery to celebrate the year of Africa 2005 and curated by the Textile Project team.
Captioned: Pair of leather sandals 2003.174 A-B Typical leather sandals, similar to those worn by the three men in the photograph [MAA : P.100405]

Event Date 2005
Author: rachel hand

Context (References)
Illustrated in Tabitha Cadbury and Fanny Wonu Veys (2006). World Costume and Textiles at the Cambridge University Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology in the Journal of Museum Ethnography No. 18, 'Looking Backward, Looking Forward': Papers from the Thirtieth Anniversary Conference Held at Manchester Museum, 9–10 May 2005 (May 2006), pp. 105-114

Figure 4. 'The newly refurbished textile display case during an exhibition o/kente cloths from Ghana. The three cloths, with a pair of sandals, were donated to the museum in 2003 and are accompanied here by a photograph of them being worn in the 1930s. From a photograph taken by Fanny Wonu Veys in October 2005.'

Event Date 2006
Author: rachel hand

Conservation (Repack)
CON.2015.1452 | Repack
Event Date 13/5/2015
Author: cft31

Description (Physical description)
Broad-soled leather sandal. Leather mid-foot strap meeting a toe-strap. At this junction is a layered leather decorative feature.
Event Date 3/7/2015
Author: maa

Description (Physical description)
Pair of broad-soled leather sandals. Leather foot strap is made of a strip of leather wrapped around the toe piece, and decorated with fringed leather. The sole is decorated with grooves, and stitched around the boarder.
Event Date 4/10/2022
Author: Sam Daisley

Conservation (Repack)
CON.2015.1453 | Repack
Event Date 4/10/2022
Author: Lucie Carreau (admin)

Context (Amendments / updates)
The 2005 Talking Textiles exhibition text noted that 'This group of objects - the photograph, the three kente cloths and the pair of sandals - were donated to the Museum by Mrs. Margaret Blaney in 2003. They originally belonged to Father Carter, who was given the costumes when he was working as an Anglican priest on the Gold Coast (now called Ghana) in the 1920s.'

However the register notes the donor as Elizabeth Blaney and Anglican priests are not usually referred to as 'Father', a term more commonly associated with Roman Catholic clergy.
Event Date 6/10/2022
Author: rachel hand