Pair Of Shoes For Bound Feet
date: label: Accession Date
content: 27 Jun 1962
name: label: Donor Name
content: Mrs. Frederick G. Scovel
notes: label: Notes
content: According to Dr. David C. Ko, a medical doctor and collector of Chinese footbinding shoes, these shoes are authentic footbinding shoes. The shoes are embroidered on the bottom and show signs of wear. Dr. Ko believes that they are from Zhejiang. Dr. Ko notes that based on the style of the shoes, they were probably worn by a wealthy woman--possibly an official's wife. Ko also notes that he has not seen this style of shoe manufactured by women for mass production. This style indicates that these shoes were made by women in a shop for commercial sale.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 13 Aug 2019
label: Specimen Count
content: 2
place: label: Place
content: China, Asia
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 242949
label: USNM Number
content: E400138-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Shoe