E0750: Leather Shoe

Ethnographic

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Identifier:

E0750

Classification Category:

3:Personal Artifacts ➞ Clothing ➞ Footwear

Marks/Labels:

Tag glued inside "Chinese"

Materials:

animal ➔ hide/skin ➔ leather
fabric ➔ cloth
metal

Dimensions:

43 cm L
16 cm W
13 cm H

Provenance of Object:

This object was held in the museum that Luther College started in 1877. This museum eventually grew into the Vesterheim Norwegian-American Museum, and following this, non-Norwegian American ethnographic objects were returned to Luther and accessioned into the college’s Anthropology Collection. Without additional documentation, was likely obtained by the Luther College Museum (later the Norwegian-American Museum) between the late 19th century and early 20th century.

Source Locality:

China

Description:

Single shoe made of leather covered with red cloth and zig zag strips of green velvet. The two is curved upward to a point.

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