- Collection type
- Object
- Description
- Textile purse with gathered opening. [MJD 24/05/2010]
- Long description
- Textile purse with gathered opening. The purse is kidney bean shaped. The opening is made of dark blue silk and gathered in a regular concertina. The lower section of the purse is made of stitched textile in white, dark blue, blue, brown and yellow. It has a floral pattern. The purse is tied closed with dark yellow lengths of string. There are two light red oval seeds strung on the thicker section of the string. [MJD 24/05/2010]
- Geographical reference
- Date / Period
- Date made: Before 1935
- Date collected
- By 1935
- Acquisition information
- Donated: 1935
- Materials and processes
- Material Textile, Material String, Material Plant Seed, Material Silk Textile Animal, Process Stitched, Process Tied, Process Strung, Process Bound, Process Tapestry Woven
- Dimensions
- Width: max 111 mm purse, Length: max 440 mm inc string
- Object numbers
- Accession number: 1935.36.47
1935.36.47
Textile purse with gathered opening. [MJD 24/05/2010]
1935.36.47
Digital asset copyright: Pitt Rivers Museum, University of Oxford
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