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Small woven wallet or clutch from Hawaii, top half (a) fits over the bottom half (b). Woven with strips of leaves in the traditional Hawaiian check design. The top half is decorated with small diamond-shaped designs, two on each side, made of dark brown leaves. The wallet or purse would have been widely available in Hawaii as a tourist item.
wallets
leaf (plant material)
Wallet
Original To Stephen Phillips House (Salem, Mass.),
Unknown
Pacific Island Group
4 3/4 x 8 x 3/8 (HxWxD) (inches)
Gift of the Stephen Phillips Memorial Charitable Trust for Historic Preservation
2006.44.3690AB
Memoirs of the Bernice Pauahi Bishop Museum, Vol. II, No. 1, 1906 on Googlebooks
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