Coin Purse

Title: Coin Purse
Description: A beaded purse that depicts two figures dressed in 1830s clothing. The seated figure wears a brown dress with a blue headdress and the standing figure wears a blue dress; both figures are surrounded by plants.
Identifier: 2022.iitb.03
Date: ca. 1825-1835
Spatial Coverage: Mexico
Creator: Mexican
Format: coin purses
Medium: beads on linen and cloth
Subject: beadwork (visual works); Clothing and dress--History--19th century; vegetation
Publisher: The Metropolitan Museum of Art; https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/156691
Provenance: Brooklyn Museum Costume Collection at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Gift of the Brooklyn Museum, 2009; Gift of Dwight W. Morrow, Jr., Constance Morrow Morgan, and Anne Morrow Lindbergh, 1956
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