Pair of thick-soled leather sandals with decorative leather buttons

Made:: 1830-1920

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Pair of thick-soled leather sandals with decorative leather
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Pair of thick-soled leather sandals with decorative leather buttons, worn to protect feet from pests, Sierra Leone, West Africa, 1880-1920

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Category:: Ethnography and Folk Medicine

Collection:: Sir Henry Wellcome's Museum Collection

Object Number:: A301719

Materials:: leather and grass

type:: sandals

credit:: Church Missionary Society

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