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Technique and Dimensions:
Leather, wood, glass count (stitch embroidery "lazy", covering stitch and festoncino embroidery)
Location:
C.A. 461
Provenance:
Donation of Missioni Cattoliche Americane, 1893
Pencil case for awl. It was carried by women hanging on the belt. Inside was kept a needle made from a bone splinter that was used to sew leather clothes. The embroidery identified the owner of the object
