Baby's Shoes - (1 Pair)
date: label: Accession Date
content: 17 Jul 1920
name: label: Donor Name
content: Miss Jessie Coope
notes: label: Notes
content: According to Dr. David C. Ko, a medical doctor and collector of Chinese footbinding shoes, these shoes are not baby shoes, as indicated by the catalog card. Instead, they appear to be footbinding shoes that were commissioned, but never worn. Dr. Ko notes that the style of the shoe is common of the Xian Xie province. In this province, bamboo is used on one side of the shoe to keep the shape. The stitching and heel of the shoes indicate that they were not meant to be worn as footbinding shoes. There is no weight-bearing area on the bottom of the shoe and the heel is very thin. The toe area is too pointed/small for weight bearing. In addition, Ko notes that layers of paper and glue were used to create the stiffness present on the sides of the shoes.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 13 Aug 2019
label: Specimen Count
content: 2
place: label: Place
content: 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: 065240
label: USNM Number
content: E315020-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Shoe