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

Date:
August 1958
Reference:
WT/D/1/20/1/153/14
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M0017017: Model of a foot that has undergone foot binding alongside a Chinese shoe designed to fit such a foot. Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0). Source: Wellcome Collection.

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

Description

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)

Publication/Creation

August 1958

Physical description

1 photograph glass plate negative; 10.2 x 12.7 cm

Related material

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

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Copyright is held by Wellcome Collection

Notes

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.

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