Bag

Museum number:
3-15621
Permalink:
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Accession number:
Acc.1186
Description:
purse, woven cotton with basketry bottom. The fabric is red with designs in blue, white, yellow and black. A woven cotton drawstring, stitched with white thread, also serves for handles. The basketry bottom is woven of wide flat grass wrapped around a stiffer plant fiber frame. It is attached to the fabric bag with stitches of white thread. Sections of the grass have been dyed green and purple.
Donor:
Mrs. Leroy W. Hahn
Collection place:
Guatemala
Culture or time period:
Guatemalan
Collector:
Leroy W. Hahn and Mrs. Leroy W. Hahn
Materials:
Cotton (textile) and Plant fiber
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Bags (generic containers)
Function:
1.1 Hunting and Fishing
Accession date:
1956
Department:
Mexico, Central America, and Caribbean area
Images:
Hearst Museum object 1 of 2 titled Bag, accession number 3-15621, described as purse, woven cotton with basketry bottom. The fabric is red with designs in blue, white, yellow and black. A woven cotton drawstring, stitched with white thread, also serves for handles. The basketry bottom is woven of wide flat grass wrapped around a stiffer plant fiber frame. It is attached to the fabric bag with stitches of white thread. Sections of the grass have been dyed green and purple.Hearst Museum object 2 of 2 titled Bag, accession number 3-15621, described as purse, woven cotton with basketry bottom. The fabric is red with designs in blue, white, yellow and black. A woven cotton drawstring, stitched with white thread, also serves for handles. The basketry bottom is woven of wide flat grass wrapped around a stiffer plant fiber frame. It is attached to the fabric bag with stitches of white thread. Sections of the grass have been dyed green and purple.
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Bag, accession number 3-15621, described as purse, woven cotton with basketry bottom. The fabric is red with designs in blue, white, yellow and black. A woven cotton drawstring, stitched with white thread, also serves for handles. The basketry bottom is woven of wide flat grass wrapped around a stiffer plant fiber frame. It is attached to the fabric bag with stitches of white thread. Sections of the grass have been dyed green and purple.

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