Pice Bag

48-29-230

From: India

Curatorial Section: Asian

Object Number 48-29-230
Current Location Collections Storage
Culture Indian
Provenience India
Date Made 16th Century - 1948
Section Asian
Materials Cotton | Shells | Flint | Stone
Technique Crocheted
Description

Pice bag. Crocheted green cotton bag with drawstrings. Correctly, for carrying pice (money, i.e. coins); now contains numerous snail shells, two flints and one pebble. One of the flints may be an implement.

Credit Line Gift of Presbyterian Board of Missions, 1948

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