FMNH 242847.B

  • 242847: beads, cotton, leather slippers
    Photographer: Diane Alexander White : Field Museum of Natural History
    (c) Field Museum of Natural History - CC BY-NC 4.0
    Description: beads, cotton, leather slippers. Royal Beaded
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    Scanner: Aidan Hercules : Field Museum of Natural History - Anthropology
    Transcriber: Julia W. Kennedy : Field Museum of Natural History - Anthropology Collections
    (c) Field Museum of Natural History - CC BY-NC 4.0
    Description: scan of catalog card [FRONT] [MAIN BODY] Field Museum of Natural History - Ethnology | 22-11 | Provenience: Africa, Nigeria S.W. | People or Culture: Yoruba | Object: slippers | Material: beads on cotton and leather | Description: Roya; [sic] bead embroidered slippers with the British royal crown on the top of the toes. Around the sides and back are images of flowers. The petals alternate red and yellow with white outline and green centers. The crowns are gold with red, green, and orange outlined with white, all on a blue ground. The soles of the slippers are tacked and sewn on leather. | Dimensions: (in cm.) length 28 x width 10.5 x height 7 (each) | Collection: Gift of R. Ziskin and D. Wedner [LEFT MARGIN] A | ENT | 242847 A-B | Field No. | Neg. No. | Acc. 3981 [BACK] [ILLUSTRATION]
Catalog Number: 242847.B
Description: slipper
Materials: glass beads, cotton, leather
Cultural Attribution: Yoruba
Time Period: modern
Accession Number: [3981] Ronald Ziskin (Gift)
Accession Year:
Collector/Source: Ronald Ziskin, Diane Wedner
EMu IRN: 1391331
GUID: 3cd6779e-f692-44a9-aa21-48eeeb6f459a

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