Shoes For Bound Feet "Caixie"
date: label: Accession Date
content: 1 Sep 1989
label: Collection Date
content: 1947
name: label: Collector
content: Vorda Honnold
label: Donor Name
content: Vorda Honnold
notes: label: Notes
content: RED SILK UPPERS EMBROIDERED IN SILK W/GREEN, PINK, LAVENDAR FLORAL AND BUTTERFLY DESIGN. TOP EDGED WITH WHITE SILK EMBROIDERY IN SCALLOP DESIGN. LEATHER SOLES. INTERIOR LINED WITH PINK COTTON CLOTH. MADE PRIOR TO 1911. (ACCORDING TO CHANG-SU HOUCHINS, MUSEUM SPECIALIST, DEPT. OF ANTHROPOLOGY 1911 IS THE PROHIBITION DATE FOR BINDING WOMEN'S FEET.)
label: Notes
content: Dr. David C. Ko, a medical doctor and collector of Chinese footbinding shoes, indicates that these shoes were manufactured, not made by hand. He did not indicate whether or not the shoes were authentic footbinding shoes.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 2 Dec 2021
label: Specimen Count
content: 2
place: label: Place
content: Shanghai, China, Asia
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Chinese
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 364394
label: USNM Number
content: E425667-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Shoe
physicalDescription: label: Length - Object
content: 18.5 cm
label: Width - Object
content: 5 cm
label: Height - Object
content: 6 cm