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Object Number 99-12-60/53798
Display Title Grass slipper
Descriptions
Inventory Description Slipper, backless, finely woven grass, open weave, diamond pattern insole
Classification
  • Shoe
Department Ethnographic
Date before 1899
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
Asia / China
Dimensions Overall: 28 x 8 x 6.7 cm (11 x 3 1/8 x 2 5/8 in.)
Quantity 1
Label on object 53798; (7) 8; 8; #
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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