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Pair black shoes
Object Number 99-12-60/53787
Display Title Pair black shoes
Descriptions
Inventory Description Shoe, leather platform, stitched black silk upper, two ridges at toe, one at hee
Classification
  • Shoe
Department Ethnographic
Date after 1840
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
Asia / China
Materials Leather, Silk, Cotton, Thread, Dye
Dimensions Overall: 7.9 x 25.6 x 8.7 cm (3 1/8 x 10 1/16 x 3 7/16 in.)
Quantity 1
Label on object 53787 L52/2/141 FE
Credit Line Gift of the Heirs of David Kimball, 1899
Provenance
Collector Capt. John Fiske
Previous owner Previously owned by Mrs. Louisa Orne
Donor David Kimball
Donor Augusta K. Horton
Donor L. Cushing Kimball

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