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: As per Dr. David C. Ko's comments (Ko is a medical doctor and collector of Chinese footbinding shoes), these shoes are authentic footbinding shoes. Dr. Ko indicates that the sole is stitched on very well.
label: Notes
content: From card: "Blue silk with tape edged heel, V front and top edge. Hand embroidered designs: hexagonal pink stitching on small heel bottom; fish and bat on heel back; fungus, lotus and swastica on side panel; crude thread swastica on red back panel. Good quality, damaged from wear, soiled. Identified by donor. Verified on basis of design motifs in Chinese Court Costumes, Helen E. Fernald, Toronto, 1946, p. 46, fig. 6, p. 49, fig. 1 and in Chinese Folk Design, W. M. Hawley, Hollywood, 1949, Supplement, Fig. 8, 55 and 56."
label: Notes
content: Note: In China and Japan, the Buddhist swastika (called the Wan symbol in China) was seen as a symbol of plurality, eternity, abundance, prosperity and long life. See "Swastika." ReligionFacts.com. 21 Nov. 2016. Web. www.religionfacts.com/swastika . Per the website for the Pacific Asia Museum, Pasadena, California exhibit "Rank and Style: Power Dressing in Imperial China", 2008, the swastika is a good luck symbol introduced into China from India with Buddhism. In 693 the Empress Wu declared the swastika as the source of all good fortune and called it wan, which is the same sound as the Chinese word for "ten thousand" or "infinity." The addition of the swastika to a symbolic wish multiplies that wish 10,000 times. Online site is archived here: https://web.archive.org/web/20160624035350/http://www.pacificasiamuseum.org/rankandstyle/html/symbols.stm .
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: E400140-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Shoe