Object Number | 2003-78-57 |
Current Location | Collections Storage |
Provenience | Tunisia |
Section | African |
Materials | Leather |
Technique | Tanned | Incised | Tooled | Embroidered |
Description | A leather wallet consisting of a series of wide strips of leather sewn together and folded to create six compartments with individual flaps; three leather tassels are attached at base; each of the flaps and the front and back sides of the compartments are decorated with tooled designs and embroidered with silk thread. |
Height | 2 cm |
Length | 19 cm |
Width | 9 cm |
Credit Line | Gift of the Philadelphia Commercial Museum (also known as the Philadelphia Civic Center Museum), Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 2003 |
Other Number | 1895.1.135 - Other Number |
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