1903.26.1

Collection type

Object

Description

Ornamental leather bag with long tassels and flaps impressed & elaborately stitched with coloured leather. [EC 'DCF 2004-2006 What's Upstairs?' 25/1/2006]

Long description

Ornamental leather bag with long tassels and flaps impressed & elaborately stitched with coloured leather. The bag has two leather loops at the top and no carrying strap. It is decorated on the front with impressed linear and circular designs, stitched linear, cross-hatched, triangular and circular designs using dyed leather thongs. The body of the bag has circular and rectangular perforations, showing red, yellow and tan coloured leather behind. The sides and base of the bag have long tassels made with tan coloured and some red leather strips. A shorter band of tassels on the base is also decorated with impressed linear designs. The opening for the bag is at the top of the flap on the front. There is a smaller pocket on the front of the bag made from red leather, which is accessible when the top of the bag is open. [SM (Verve) 12/03/2014]

Geographical reference

Morocco

Africa > Northern Africa > Morocco

Tétouan

Cultural groups

Moor

Person

Field collector Edmund Hope Verney

PRM source Edmund Hope Verney

Date / Period

Date made: Before 1903

Date collected

By 1903

Acquisition information

Donated: 1903

Materials and processes

Material Animal Leather Skin, Material Pigment, Process Decorated, Process Impressed, Process Stitched, Process Dyed, Process Knotted, Process Perforated

Dimensions

Length: max 530 mm incl. tassels, Width: max 270 mm

Object numbers

Accession number: 1903.26.1

Research and responses

According to the Encyclopedia Britannica Online, Tetuan is the old name for Tétouan, a city in north-central Morocco which was inhabited by Moorish-Andalusian refugees from the sixteenth century onwards. [CW 6/1/2000]

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