Cleveland Museum of Art
Sandals (mitalawanda / mitawanda) or Clogs (kiatu cha mti)
c. 1800s
This distinctive footwear traveled from Southeast Asia and the Middle East to Africa, first to the Swahili Coast and then further inland to parts of Central Africa. The deity Krishna wears similar shoes (<em>paduka</em>) in an eighteenth-century Indian miniature painting (2003.344).
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