Object Details
- Collection History
- Collected from Louisa Baptiste (Peoria) in 1909 by anthropologist Mark Raymond Harrington (1882-1971, MAI staff member) during fieldwork sponsored by George Heye.
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- Data Source
- National Museum of the American Indian
- Culture/People
- Peoria
- Previous owner
- Louisa Baptiste, Osage/Peoria
- Collector
- Mark Raymond Harrington (M. R. Harrington/MRH), Non-Indian, 1882-1971
- Date created
- circa 1895
- Object Name
- Handbag/Purse
- Media/Materials
- Velvet, cotton cloth, glass bead/beads, cotton thread
- Techniques
- Sewn, gourd stitch/brick stitch/netted beadwork, lined, strung
- Dimensions
- 27 x 26.5 cm
- Object Type
- Bags/Pouches (and parts)
- Indigenous Term
- co li' ma ta i'
