<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>The Burke Museum at the University of Washington has received a query about a pair of 'Thai dancing shoes' at a museum in Herne, Germany. Would anyone on T/L/C be able to identify these shoes that were clearly never used for dancing.<div><br></div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Please respond to Becky Andrews (<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica; "><a href="mailto:randrew@u.washington.edu">randrew@u.washington.edu</a>) at the Burke Museum, and cc Stevan Harrell, my colleague who forwarded the query to me.</span></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica"><br></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica">Thanks,</font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica"><br></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica">Biff<br></font><div apple-content-edited="true"> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><div>Charles Keyes</div><div>Emeritus Professor of Anthropology and International Studies</div><div>Department of Anthropology</div><div>Box 353100</div><div>University of Washington</div><div>Seattle, WA 98195-3100</div></div><div><br></div></div></span></div></span></div><div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica"><br></font></div><blockquote type="cite"><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><div><blockquote type="cite"><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><div><blockquote type="cite"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0; "><div bgcolor="#ffffff"><div><font face="Arial" size="2"></font> </div><div> </div><div style="font: normal normal normal 10pt/normal arial; ">----- Original Message -----<div style="background-image: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; -webkit-background-clip: initial; -webkit-background-origin: initial; background-color: rgb(228, 228, 228); background-position: initial initial; "><b>From:</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a title="jasmine_im_schaller@yahoo.de" href="mailto:jasmine_im_schaller@yahoo.de">Jasmine I.M. Schaller</a></div><div><b>To:</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a title="theburke@u.washington.edu" href="mailto:theburke@u.washington.edu">theburke@u.washington.edu</a></div><div><b>Sent:</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Wednesday, June 24, 2009 9:20 AM</div><div><b>Subject:</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>What kind of shoes are they, please?</div></div><div><br></div><table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0"><tbody><tr><td valign="top"><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Dear Madam, Dear Sir,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal">At<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><span lang="EN-US">the<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span><st1:place><st1:placetype><span lang="EN-US">Museum</span></st1:placetype><span lang="EN-US"><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>of<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span><st1:placename><span lang="EN-US">Archeology</span></st1:placename></st1:place><span lang="EN-US"><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>in<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span><st1:city><st1:place><span lang="EN-US">Herne</span></st1:place></st1:city><span lang="EN-US"><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>in the special exhibition<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="FR"><a href="http://www.schuhtick-ausstellung.de/"><span lang="EN-US">http://www.schuhtick-ausstellung.de/</span></a></span><span lang="FR"></span><span lang="EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">I saw a pair of "Dancing shoes, metal, before 1924,<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span><st1:country-region><st1:place><span lang="EN-US">Thailand</span></st1:place></st1:country-region><span lang="EN-US">".<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">The owner, the<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span><st1:place><st1:placename><span lang="EN-US">Übersee</span></st1:placename><span lang="EN-US"><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span><st1:placetype><span lang="EN-US">Museum</span></st1:placetype></st1:place><span lang="EN-US"><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>in<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span><st1:state><st1:place><span lang="EN-US">Bremen</span></st1:place></st1:state><span lang="EN-US"><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>cannot furnish me with</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">any further information about the shoes and I do not think</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">they are dancing shoes anyway.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Please see the photograph attached.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">What kind of shoes are they, please?<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Thank you kindly for your trouble.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Sincerely,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="FR">Jasmine I.M. Schaller<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="FR"><o:p><br></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="FR">Im Johannistal 23<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="FR">42119 Wuppertal<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="FR">Germany<o:p></o:p></span></p><span lang="FR"><a href="mailto:jasmine_im_schaller@yahoo.de">jasmine_im_schaller@yahoo.de</a><br>Phone: 01149 202 422210<br></span><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="FR"><br><o:p></o:p></span></p></td></tr></tbody></table><br><img height="491" width="735" src="cid:C0557C61-5240-462D-9483-EEAD7F771222@dhcp4.washington.edu"></div></span></blockquote></div><br></div></div></blockquote></div><br></div></div></blockquote></div><br></div></body></html>