Boot

2003-75-16

From: Sudan

Curatorial Section: African

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Object Number 2003-75-16
Current Location Collections Storage
Provenience Sudan
Section African
Materials Leather | Hide | Cotton
Technique Sewn | Embroidered
Description

Footwear: High riding boot with plain pieced, tanned leather foot; cotton front of boot, from ankle to knee, appliqued with a variety of cut out leather pieces in white, brown and green. The rear and sides of the boot are of tanned hide; sides decorated with three squares of green leather, one of red cotton, and two of open cut leather with cotton backing.

Height 92.7 cm
Length 27.9 cm
Width 11.4 cm
Credit Line Gift of the Philadelphia Commercial Museum (also known as the Philadelphia Civic Center Museum), Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 2003
Other Number 1900.1.196 - Other Number

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