Round pouch of ocher-yellow shantung silk, around which a square surface of embroidered green-gray roughened wool adorned with tiger eye beads, around which a square surface with fanned out points of embroidered green-gray roughened wool, lined with ocher yellow silk. The four points are fixed at the top edge of the pouch, with a tiger eye bead at each end. The wool is decorated with small, regularly spread points and an embroidered border in golden yellow and brown floss. In the center a four-pointed star, inside which an embroidered circle in green and brown and a semicircular glass bead.
Round pouch of ocher-yellow shantung silk, around which a square surface of embroidered green-gray roughened wool adorned with tiger eye beads, around which a square surface with fanned out points of embroidered green-gray roughened wool, lined with ocher yellow silk. The four points are fixed at the top edge of the pouch, with a tiger eye bead at each end. The wool is decorated with small, regularly spread points and an embroidered border in golden yellow and brown floss. In the center a four-pointed star, inside which an embroidered circle in green and brown and a semicircular glass bead. At the points of the star a machine-embroidered line of round brown or elongated golden-yellow dots, which ends at the points of the woolen surface. Along the edge of the bag is a strip of crocheted circles through which a double golden-yellow twisted string is threaded, with which the bag can be closed. The bag is unlined., anonymous, Netherlands (possibly), c. 1910 - c. 1920, geheel, voering, versiering, kraal, koord, embroidering, l 26 cm × w 26 cm × h 12 cm
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