Purse

purse

Name/Title

Purse

Entry/Object ID

1924.7

Description

Small purse made of loom-woven glass seed beads. The beads form a pastoral design showing two sheep, a deer, a shepherdess, and a shepherd in a yard by a house. The bottom has a floral border on red ground and is edged with looped fringe in blue and red beads. The purse closes uses a drawstring at the top.

Context

Made by Sophronia Hale in Westford, Vermont about 1835.

Acquisition

Accession

1924.7

Source or Donor

Buzzell, Florence M.

Acquisition Method

Gift

Made/Created

Artist

Hale, Sophronia

Date made

1835

Place

Town

Westford

County

Chittenden County

State/Province

Vermont

Country

United States of America

Continent

North America

Lexicon

Nomenclature 4.0

Nomenclature Secondary Object Term

Purse

Nomenclature Primary Object Term

Bag, Carrying

Nomenclature Sub-Class

Personal Carrying & Storage Gear

Nomenclature Class

Personal Gear

Nomenclature Category

Category 03: Personal Objects

Material

Metal, Glass