These end of the 19th century shoes were bought by our grandmother in the San'a Yemen in the 60's. She was told that these shoes were used by wealthy Yemenite Jewish women. Shoes of this nature were worn only by high status wealthy individuals. They are hand-made of leather, animal sinew and silver thread. They are highly decorated. She was also told that by the early 20th century, these same shoes were used in divorce ceremonies as the Jewish man would place these shoes outside the door of his house signifying that he wanted a divorce from his wife. The name of the ceremony is Halutzah. There are very few examples of these kinds of Yemenite shoes but we have found similar ones in a book called "The Yemenites Two Thousand Years of Jewish Culture". The book is printed by the Israel Museum in Jerusalem. The author's name is Ester Muchawsky-Schnapper. These are truly museum pieces. We have never seen any come up for sale. They measure 9" long and 4" wide. Guaranteed authentic and reasonably priced.  

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