Shoulder Bag
Date:
c. 1890
Medium:
Wool fabric and yarn, cotton fabric and thread, glass beads
Dimensions:
15 1/2 x 33 1/8 inches (39.4 x 84.1 cm)
Credit Line:
Founders Society Purchase
Object number:
81.429
Front panel of bag, strap and extensions are of loom- woven beadwork. The bag is black, the strap, white. The design is a complex combination of triangles, hexagons, diamonds and parallelograms worked into an elaborate grid of quadrilateral symmetry featuring the following colors: pink, yellow, red, dark blue-green, navy, black, white and turquoise. The extension designs alternate as follows: two red diamonds on white, then navy/gold/navy vertical stripes edged in white.
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