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Boot

Object Number:42-39-17
Current Location: Collections Storage
Provenience: Tibet
Section:Asian
Materials:Wool (uncertain)
Hair (uncertain)
Skin
Canvas
Length: 40 cm
Width: 23.5 cm
Credit Line:Academy of Natural Sciences / University Museum Expedition to Southwest China and Tibet; Gordon T. Bowles, 1932
Other Number:CG99-1-3 - Found in Collection Number

Description

Woven wool or hair. Dark brown upper with leather sole. Canvas, diamond-shaped material divides boot from ankle to toe. Canvas stripe divides wool upper at foot. Back slit at top half of boot. Edges at top are frayed. Boot is patched with blue and purple wool patches.

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