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Abstract
Feet and shoe images are a distinctive feature of Scandinavian rock art. They are life-size representations of parts of the human body but, in spite of this, they have rarely been incorporated into a discourse concerning human bodies in relation to the use of dress and nakedness in the construction of personhood. In this article this theme is elaborated by discussing images of feet and shoes primarily from Järrestad in south-east Sweden. It is argued that these images represented ideas of dress and nakedness and that these concepts were ambiguous and manifold: nakedness was used in certain social and ritual contexts to express authority and rank, while in other contexts nakedness was used to express community and equality.