One Pair of Shoes
date: label: Accession Date
content: 20 Oct 1989
name: label: Donor Name
content: Nancy M. Nenbert
notes: label: Notes
content: Oval, slip-on shoes, made of netted human hair of varying shades of brown, with braided strap across center of top. Inside and bottom lined with fine white feathers. Called "kaddachi boots" by donor. Said to give magic powers and invisibility: "kurdaitcha shoes, non-utilitarian footwear worn to become a kurdaitcha, a malevolent being who preys on and causes death of humans" (D.S. Davidson, "Footwear of the Australian Aborigines: Environmental vs. Cultural Determination" in Southwestern Journal of Anthropology. Vol 3, no. 2, Summer 1947. page 116 -- a copy is in the accession file).
label: Record Last Modified
content: 10 Oct 2023
label: Specimen Count
content: 2
place: label: Place
content: Alice Springs, Northern Territory, Australia
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Aboriginal Australian
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 373806
label: USNM Number
content: E424690-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Feather Shoe
physicalDescription: label: Length
content: 22 cm
label: Width
content: 16 cm
label: Height
content: 5 cm