Ceremonial left shoe made of compacted feathers
- maker:
- Arrernte people
Ceremonial left shoe made of compacted feathers, blood, fibre and hair cord, used by Kurdaitcha, made by Arrernte people (Arunta), central Australia, 1890-1920
Details
- Category:
- Ethnography and Folk Medicine
- Collection:
- Sir Henry Wellcome's Museum Collection
- Object Number:
- A78838
- Materials:
- feathers, of an emu, hair, human, blood, fibre and mud
- type:
- human remains, human hair and shoe
- credit:
- Wellcome Trust
