Bag

Museum number:
5-16721
Permalink:
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Alternate number:
516721
Accession number:
Acc.4739
Description:
leather draw string bag. dark brown leather decorated with stitched bands of 5 narrow strips of white and blue dyed leather. round bottom attached to body with white piping constructed of three panels of white piping between panels. finished with one row of blue dyed leather stitching around top edge. tasseled drawstrings and are of sienna colored leather with tassels bound in white leather. Conservation: 1 drawsting half torn; worn from use
Donor:
Berta Bascom
Collection place:
Nigeria
Verbatim coll. place:
W. Africa, Nigeria
Collector:
Berta Bascom and William Russell Bascom
Materials:
Leather
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Bags (generic containers)
Function:
2.1 Daily Garb
Accession date:
June 23, 2004
Context of use:
Personal accessory
Department:
Africa (except Ancient Egypt)
Dimensions:
base— diameter 14.5 centimeters, panels— height 23.8 centimeters, and panels— width 15.5 centimeters
Images:
Hearst Museum object 1 of 3 titled Bag, accession number 5-16721, described as leather draw string bag. dark brown leather decorated with stitched bands of 5 narrow strips of white and blue dyed leather. round bottom attached to body with white piping constructed of three panels of white piping between panels. finished with one row of blue dyed leather stitching around top edge. tasseled drawstrings and are of sienna colored leather with tassels bound in white leather. Conservation: 1 drawsting half torn; worn from useHearst Museum object 2 of 3 titled Bag, accession number 5-16721, described as leather draw string bag. dark brown leather decorated with stitched bands of 5 narrow strips of white and blue dyed leather. round bottom attached to body with white piping constructed of three panels of white piping between panels. finished with one row of blue dyed leather stitching around top edge. tasseled drawstrings and are of sienna colored leather with tassels bound in white leather. Conservation: 1 drawsting half torn; worn from useHearst Museum object 3 of 3 titled Bag, accession number 5-16721, described as leather draw string bag. dark brown leather decorated with stitched bands of 5 narrow strips of white and blue dyed leather. round bottom attached to body with white piping constructed of three panels of white piping between panels. finished with one row of blue dyed leather stitching around top edge. tasseled drawstrings and are of sienna colored leather with tassels bound in white leather. Conservation: 1 drawsting half torn; worn from use

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