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Pair of bound feet shoes of dark indigo cotton back flap extends from ankle, two loop ties on either side in blue cotton. Vamp made of red and blue silk embroidered with flower design. Lined in white cotton. The wooden soles are covered with white cotton on sides, red cotton on underside.
Collected by the donor's aunt, Hilda Wilson, who was a missionary with the China Inland Mission in Szechwan from the 1930s until 1947.
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