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
type:
pattens
credit:
Glendining