Child's sandal, Burma
date: label: date made
content: ca. 1909
notes: label: Description
content: This is a pair of children’s shoes from Rangoon, Burma (now Myanmar), in 1909. The soles are made of wood that is ½” thick with a strip of leather under the heel. The top of the sole is covered with a thin layer of red leather attached by closely set rows of brass tacks. The straps are made of leather covered with black cloth and secured by tacks. These shoes were collected by Frank G. Carpenter over the duration of 40 years of world travel. They were donated to the museum by his daughter, Francis Huntington, in 1926. The collection of shoes amasses by Carpenter provides not only unique examples of footwear around the globe, but the increasingly globalized landscape of the turn of the century.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: Myanmar: Yangon
setName: label: See more items in
content: Work and Industry: Agriculture
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Frances Huntington
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: AG.A.2883
label: catalog number
content: A.2883
label: accession number
content: 93542
label: collector/donor number
content: 85
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Child'S Sandal
label: Object Name
content: shoes, pair of
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: one: 1 1/2 in x 3 1/8 in x 8 7/16 in; 3.81 cm x 7.9375 cm x 21.43125 cm