shoe
- Museum number
- Eu1997,04.30.a-b
- Description
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Pair of women's leather shoes ('opanci', singular 'opanak'), the sole formed of a single piece of thick natural coloured leather gathered at the rim, the uppers formed of strips of plaited leather with decorated in strips of red and blue leather. The high back forms an ankle boot with further red and blue decorative strips and a strong leather strap with metal buckle.
- Production date
- 1950s-1960s (donor information)
- Dimensions
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Length: 29 centimetres
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Width: 11 centimetres
- Curator's comments
- Text from Eth Doc 1892, no. 14: Made by men village craftsmen, but some were made in Zagreb. The lower part of natural tanned hide is made on a last; has narrow strips of leather across the upper part secured around the edge and up the middle by strips of thin plaited leather, beaten flat. Across the instep there is a wide band of plain leather strip in red and blue, and another around the ankle: a single strip sep[arates] the strips up the centre of the front. A leather strap with buckle passes through the top of the ankle panel. In some villages Victorian high heeled button up boots became fashionable in black or brown.
Religion: Roman Catholic.
For other parts of this attire see: 25: shirt; 26: trousers; 27: waistcoat; 28: jacket; 29: neck-tie.
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1997
- Acquisition notes
- purchased by the donor in the mid-1960s in Zagreb.
- Department
- Britain, Europe and Prehistory
- Registration number
- Eu1997,04.30.a-b