Pair of wooden patterns with elaborately carved soles

Made:
1890-1930 in Sudan
maker:
Hausa people

Pair of wooden pattens with elaborately carved soles and patterned leather cross over instep straps secured by thongs through holes in wood, used by Hausa, from West Sudan, 1890-1930

Details

Category:
Ethnography and Folk Medicine
Collection:
Sir Henry Wellcome's Museum Collection
Object Number:
A157726
Materials:
wood and leather
Measurements:
maximum: height 91 mm
maximum: length 287 mm
maximum: width 108 mm
type:
pattens
credit:
Glendining

Parts

Wooden pattern with elaborately carved sole

Wooden pattern with elaborately carved sole

Wooden patten with elaborately carved soles and patterned leather cross over instep straps secured by thongs through holes in wood, used by Hausa, from West Sudan, 1890-1930

Measurements:
maximum: height 91 mm
maximum: length 287 mm
maximum: width 108 mm
Materials:
wood (unidentified) and leather
Object Number:
A157726/1
type:
pattens
Image ©
The Board of Trustees of the Science Museum
Wooden pattern with elaborately carved sole

Wooden pattern with elaborately carved sole

Wooden pattern with elaborately carved sole

Measurements:
maximum: height 91 mm
maximum: length 287 mm
maximum: width 108 mm
Materials:
wood (unidentified) and leather
Object Number:
A157726/2
type:
pattens
Image ©
The Board of Trustees of the Science Museum

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