Shoes worn by Chiwetel Ejiofor as Solomon Northup in the film 12 Years a Slave

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These shoes were worn by Chiwetel Ejiofor as Solomon Northup in the film 12 Years a Slave (2013). The brogan shoes have a high leg and squared toes, with dark brown leather uppers and stacked wooden heels. The soles and heel bottoms are made from leather. The shoes close at the front of the legs with lengths of leather cord that are knotted near the ends. The shoes have been distressed for filming. On the interior leg of each shoe is a strip of white tape with the word WESTERN handwritten in black ink, with an adhesive barcode in the proper right shoe near the tape that reads "WESTERN COSTUME" above the barcode and the number "40734580" below it. There is no barcode sticker inside the proper right shoe, but handwritten in black ink below the white tape is the text "WCC / 40734580".

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