Shoes for women with bound feet, Chinese, 1870-1910.

Pair of wooden soled shoes, China c.1910.

Plaster copy of a bound female foot with shoe and stocking, Chinese.

Slippers for women with bound feet, Chinese, 19th century.

Pair of non-articulated metal legs for a male Thalidomide teenager, 1975.

Ivory figurine of a loving couple, Chinese.

Ivory figurine of a loving couple, Chinese.

A clicker at work cutting out leather soles at a shoe factory. 1950.

Florence Nightingale's moccasins, c.1856.

Pair of extension prostheses, 1966.

Pair of Nuba wooden pattens (shoes), Sudan, c 1890-1920.

Pair of Nuba wooden pattens (shoes), Sudan, c 1890-1920.