Coin Purse

Title (Dublin Core): Coin Purse
Description (Dublin Core): 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 (Dublin Core): 2022.iitb.17
Date (Dublin Core): ca. 1800-1820
Spatial Coverage (Dublin Core): Mexico
Creator (Dublin Core): Mexican
Format (Dublin Core): coin purses
Medium (Dublin Core): beads on silk and paper
Subject (Dublin Core): beadwork (visual works); Birds in art; trees (woody plants)
Publisher (Dublin Core): The Metropolitan Museum of Art; https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/156675
Provenance (Dublin Core): 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
Rights (Dublin Core): No Copyright - United States