sandals (clothing: footwear)

Pair of tooled and dyed leather thong sandals, with a leather sole. The top-side of the sole is dyed a darker brown around the edge, with a central band under the heal. The leather thong is made from tooled leather, with a series of horizontal raised lines. In Sierra Leone, this kind of tooled leatherwork is often called Mandigno leatherwork, refering to a craft practiced and worn by Mulim elites in the North.

Pair of tooled and dyed leather thong sandals, with a leather sole. The top-side of the sole is dyed a darker brown around the edge, with a central band under the heal. The leather thong is made from tooled leather, with a series of horizontal raised lines. In Sierra Leone, this kind of tooled leatherwork is often called Mandigno leatherwork, refering to a craft practiced and worn by Mulim elites in the North.

object
MUSEUM NUMBER
1981.545
PLACE
COLLECTION
MATERIAL/TECHNIQUE
leather
CATEGORY
Anthropology: Ethnography
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