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woman's bag with heart design
Culture or people Micmac people
Creation date 1870-1910
Materials cloth, glass beads, cotton thread
Dimensions L: 7 in.
Location Native Art of the Americas Gallery
Credit line Emma Harter Sweetser Fund
Accession number 76.231
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The form of this bag is derived from European examples.

By the 1700s American Indian artists in the East and Midwest had begun to decorate imported European cloth, rather than animal skin, for items of dress.

The intention of beaded dress items is to beautify and enhance an owner's status.

American Indian beadwork, in general, is decorative rather than symbolic, and most designs are geometric and floral.

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