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Tubular-shaped off-white bag with hand-sewn seams, narrows to top drawstring and closure; macrame' knotted shoulder straps and hanging device; the gromets are hand-sewn with string.
ditty bags
accessories
stitching
macrame (technique)
Bag, Carrying
Bag, Ditty
Bag, Ditty
Typed and ink-inscribed paper label pinned to bag near top: ""sail makers bag / From the Lyman S. Hapgood House. / Pleasant St., Gloucester / auction 1943"" (paper label removed from bag and placed in accession file 9/15/1995).
Used At Lyman S. Hapgood House,
Unknown
29 x 10 1/4 (HxW) (inches)
Gift of Bertram K. and Nina Fletcher Little
1991.294
Massachusetts (United States)
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