Beaded purse

Museum number:

1-71841

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Accession number:

Acc.838

Description:

Purse, beaded; rectangular; with cover flap and carrying handle; beaded, fringed at bottom of cover; deer design in blue on white ground, both sides. Blue and white glass beads. Length of closed purse: 12.8 cm; width: 11.6 cm

Donor:

Grace Blair DePue

Collection place:

North Central California

Verbatim coll. place:

California

Culture or time period:

Wintu

Collector:

Grace Blair DePue

Collection date:

1900-1944

Object type:

ethnography

Object class:

Beads (pierced objects)

Function:

2.2 Personal Adornments and Accoutrements

Accession date:

February 19, 1945

Department:

Native California (archaeology and ethnology)

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