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Object Number 99-12-60/53814
Display Title Slipper
Descriptions
Inventory Description Slipper, leather sole, upturned toe, embroidered upper, red cloth at heel
Classification
  • Slipper
Department Ethnographic
Date before 1899
Culture
  • Bengali?
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
Asia / India / Bengal Presidency?
Dimensions Overall: 4 x 26.6 x 9.7 cm (1 9/16 x 10 1/2 x 3 13/16 in.)
Quantity 1
Label on object 53814; Sona ka juta / Bengali Shoe / such worn by Hindu
Credit Line Gift of the Heirs of David Kimball, 1899
Provenance
Provenance Boston Museum
Donor David P. Kimball
Donor Augusta K. Horton
Donor L. Cushing Kimball

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