Black Beaded Clutch
Object Details
- Date
- 20th century
- Medium
- glass beads, synthetic fabric
- Dimensions
- Open: 5 3/4 × 6 × 3/8 in. (14.6 × 15.2 × 1 cm)
- Close: 5 3/4 × 4 7/16 × 3/8 in. (14.6 × 11.3 × 1 cm)
- Caption
- Swirls of glass beads form a monochrome mosaic on this black clutch. In the front, a narrow flap folds over the semicircular clutch and closes with a metal snap. A hand grab permits the clutch to be held from the back. The glass beads follow a wave pattern on both front and back, including on the front flap, and are secured on a netting in a simple ladder stitch. The clutch’s sides and hand grab feature a straight ladder stitch pattern. The purse belonged to renowned scholar-librarian Dorothy Porter Wesley (1905-1995), who organized and developed an unparalleled collection rooted in African American history that would become the Moorland-Spingarn Research Center at Howard University in Washington, DC.
- Accession Number
- 1997.0020.0008
- Type
- purse
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- Anacostia Community Museum Collection
- Data Source
- Anacostia Community Museum
- Restrictions & Rights
- CC0
- Metadata Usage
- CC0
- Record ID
- acm_1997.0020.0008
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