slipper
- Museum number
- Af1981,05.2.a-b
- Description
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Pair of bride's slippers (tarkasin) made of red-dyed leather embroidered in silk thread and decorated with metal studs. Tongues cut in the shape of the khamsa ('five') or 'Hand of Fatima'.
- Production date
- 20thC(late) (before 1981)
- Dimensions
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Height: 11.40 centimetres (a)
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Height: 11.40 centimetres (b)
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Width: 9.40 centimetres (a)
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Width: 9.40 centimetres (b)
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Depth: 23.80 centimetres (a)
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Depth: 23.50 centimetres (b)
- Location
- Not on display
- Exhibition history
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Exhibited:
2015-16 14 November - 15 May, London, BM, 'Life and sole: Footwear from the Islamic world'
- Acquisition date
- 1981
- Department
- Africa, Oceania and the Americas
- Registration number
- Af1981,05.2.a-b