Coin Purse

Title: Coin Purse
Description: A beaded purse that depicts a large, blue and red bird in a green tree. The bird and tree are surrounded by a border of red flowers on a green vine. This bird motif may be a symbol of marriage.
Identifier: 2022.iitb.17
Date: ca. 1800-1820
Spatial Coverage: Mexico
Creator: Mexican
Format: coin purses
Medium: beads on silk and paper
Subject: beadwork (visual works); Birds in art; trees (woody plants)
Publisher: The Metropolitan Museum of Art; https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/156675
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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