Woman's Bound-Foot Shoes
date: label: Accession Date
content: 14 Dec 1976
name: label: Donor Name
content: Mrs. Charles T. Looney
notes: label: Notes
content: According to Dr. David C. Ko, a medical doctor and collector of Chinese footbinding shoes, these shoes are probably not authentic footbinding shoes. He notes that the shoes are partially waterproof, and that their color, red, indicates that they may have been wedding shoes. The waterproofing is interesting because only the lower portion has been waterproofed. Dr. Ko also notes that although the heel of the shoe and shape of the shoe are appropriate for footbinding shoes, the sewing is not strong enough to have supported the weight of a woman. The weakness of the sewing is exemplified by the presence of glue, which has been used to keep the shoes together. Dr. Ko also notes that the shoes have tassles--an indication that they were manufactured later than 1910.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 13 Aug 2019
label: Specimen Count
content: 2
place: label: Place
content: Tianjin (Tientsin), Hebei Province (Hopei), 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: 325082
label: USNM Number
content: E417788-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Shoe