wallet

Leather portefeuille.
Leather wallet with black woollen strap. Wallet has long fringed decoration and is incised with linear and geometric shapes. A central panel hangs down the centre which is heavily decorated and has red and navy stitched decoration as well as incised and coloured patterns.

object
MUSEUM NUMBER
2007.231
PLACE
COLLECTION
MEASUREMENTS
overall: 1220 mm x 115 mm x 45 mm
MATERIAL/TECHNIQUE
leather; wool
CATEGORY
Anthropology: Ethnography
LOCATION
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