Handbag/purse

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Culture/People: Tuscarora
Presenter/funding source: Viking Fund, Incorporated (The Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research, Inc.), 1941-

Collection History: Collection history unknown; purchased by MAI from an unknown source in 1948 using funds donated by the Viking Fund, Inc. (The Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research, Inc.).
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Place: New York; USA

See related items: Tuscarora; Made-for-Sale items and Souvenirs

Data Source: National Museum of the American Indian

Catalog Number: 21/992
Barcode: 210992.000

Object Type: Made-for-Sale items and Souvenirs

Object Name: Handbag/purse
Media/Materials: Cotton cloth, ribbon, glass bead/beads
Techniques: Sewn, raised beadwork, overlay beadwork, lazy/lane stitch beadwork, edge beaded

Metadata Usage: CC0

GUID: http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ws61778155b-14d7-4833-9ac0-f1db5e286c39

Record ID: NMAI_225004