Purse
Description
Brown knit bag with white beaded embroidery in a geometric pattern. Gold metal frame opening with small metal ring at top center. Thread fringe at bottom trimmed with white beads.
Creator
Date
circa 1840
Brown knit bag with white beaded embroidery in a geometric pattern. Gold metal frame opening with small metal ring at top center. Thread fringe at bottom trimmed with white beads.
circa 1840
Silk, glass beads, metal
6.5 L x 3 W inches
1993.29.11
1993.29
15956
Gift of James McHenry Gillet, C. Van Leuven Stewart, Cary McHenry Stewart, and Warren Emerson Stewart in memory of Peggy Stewart Williams
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