Leather Sandals

Unidentified Baganda maker

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Leather

Overall: 11 × 4 3/4 in. (28 × 12 cm)

Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Museum Purchase

39.64.6836

Geography

Place Made: Uganda, Eastern Africa, Africa

Object Name

Clothing: Footwear

Research Area

Africa

Not on view

Provenance

Collection of Mrs. Bazett (possibly Mrs. Mary Ann Sampson Bazett (1837-unknown), mother of Mary Bazett Leakey (1866-1948), one of the four Bazett sisters who were Missionaries in East Africa); given to the Museum and Art Gallery Reading, England, date unknown; sold to present collection, 1939.

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