Miniature Shoes 2
date: label: Accession Date
content: 20 Mar 1931
name: label: Donor Name
content: Victor J. Evans
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 representative of the early Cantonese/Guangdong style, and were most likely never worn. Dr. Ko believes the shoes may have been a gift, or were manufactured for "show". Ko notes the high technique in the embroidery, the gold thread, and the cloth which serves as a "legging". Ko believes the leggings on the shoes were assembled separately. He notes that the leggings could be changed. Women would tuck their pants into the leggings. The cloth used in the leggings is particularly interesting.
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: 113605
label: USNM Number
content: E361548-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Shoe