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Red leather bag, decorated with beads and nail heads
Red leather bag, decorated with beads and nail heads
Object Number 38-44-50/3296
Display Title Red leather bag, decorated with beads and nail heads
Descriptions
Inventory Description Bag, red leather, fringed and beaded, metal stud and embroidery designed flap
Classification
  • Bag
Department Ethnographic
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
Africa / Sudan
Materials Leather, Metal, Metal thread, Glass
Dimensions Overall: 23.7 x 15 x 9 cm (9 5/16 x 5 7/8 x 3 9/16 in.)
Quantity 1
Label on object 38-44-50/3296
Credit Line Gift of Mrs. Henry H. Richardson in memory of Theodore Jewett Eastman, Class of 1901, A.B. 1901, M.D. 1905, 1938

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