Bag
Date:
c. 1890
Medium:
Wool yarn, nettle fiber, buckskin tie
Credit Line:
Founders Society Purchase
Object number:
81.401
Flat rectangular bag woven of red, yellow, green, blue black, brown and white yarns in two designs, recto and verso. Recto design features checkered vertical bands framing two underwater panthers facing opposite directions. On verso bands with hourglass motifs frame concentric diamonds with a crustacean (?) at the center. Stepped diagonal lines radiate at forty five degree angles from the edge of the bag toward the edge of the diamond. A leather tie is attached.
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