- Collection type
- Object
- Description
- Purse made of entire lizard skin.
- Long description
- Purse made of entire lizard skin. The purse has a red leather disc between the hind legs and red leather rim and straps at the neck.
- Geographical reference
- Cultural groups
- Kabyle Berber
- Date / Period
- Date made: Before 1900
- Date collected
- 1900
- Acquisition information
- Donated: 1900
- Materials and processes
- Material Lizard Skin Reptile, Material Animal Leather Skin, Process Stitched
- Dimensions
- Length: max 470 mm, Width: max 200 mm
- Object numbers
- Accession number: 1900.23.12
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