M0017017: Model of a foot that has undergone foot binding alongside a Chinese shoe designed to fit such a foot

Previous title, replaced March 2022: Chinese shoes for deformed (bound) feet.

Photograph of a cast of a 14 year old girl's foot after it has undergone the Chinese practice of foot binding, alongside a shoe that would have fit the foot. The items were acquired by the Wellcome Historical Medical Museum at an unknown point and accessioned in 1936 (accession number R8789/1936 and R8788/1936)

August 1958

1 photograph glass plate negative; 10.2 x 12.7 cm

Wellcome Collection holds the accession register which provides entries for the items: R8788/1936 and R8789/1936

Copyright is held by Wellcome Collection

Catalogue data comes from a combination of entries in the original glass plate registers, metadata created when the glass plates were digitised in the early 2000s and enhancements made by the cataloguer in 2022.

Please consult the digitised version as this item is fragile. Email library@wellcomecollection.org to request access to the physical item.