THE MOST STRIKING ASPECT OF EUROPE’S NEWEST NATION: ITS NORMALC

ON DISPLAY AT THE ETHNOGRAPHIC MUSEUM IN KOSOVO’S CAPITAL OF PRISTINA IS A LADY’S WOODEN SHOE WITH A SOLE COVERED WITH INTRICATE CARVINGS AND RICH INLAYS OF MOTHER-OF-PEARL. IT DATES FROM THE 18TH CENTURY, BUT ANY WOMAN WOULD BE PROUD TO WEAR IT, THEN OR NOW.

The museum, which is in a former 18th-century manor house that once belonged to a wealthy Albanian family during Ottoman rule, also exhibits sumptuous textiles, jewelry and furniture, and includes a birthing

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