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A DELAWARE BEADED CLOTH SHOULDER BAG
In the form of a square pocket with triangular flap backed with black cloth, the interior of bag with beige, brown and orange cotton fabric with geometric pattern, trimmed with satin and bordered with a row of white beads, decorated with pink, red and white beaded floral pattern against a blue beaded ground, twenty-four red tassels with metal tin cone suspensions on lower edge, the strap portion backed with navy, cream and green cotton fabric with floral design, three tabs at either end, trimmed with pink satin and bordered with a row of white beads, decorated on both sides with floral beaded pattern with different colored grounds, red, white, translucent against a blue beaded ground on proper left side, red, navy, white and translucent black and green against a pink beaded ground on the other side
The bag: 11¼in. (28.5cm.) long; the strap extended: 56½in. (143.5cm.) long
In the form of a square pocket with triangular flap backed with black cloth, the interior of bag with beige, brown and orange cotton fabric with geometric pattern, trimmed with satin and bordered with a row of white beads, decorated with pink, red and white beaded floral pattern against a blue beaded ground, twenty-four red tassels with metal tin cone suspensions on lower edge, the strap portion backed with navy, cream and green cotton fabric with floral design, three tabs at either end, trimmed with pink satin and bordered with a row of white beads, decorated on both sides with floral beaded pattern with different colored grounds, red, white, translucent against a blue beaded ground on proper left side, red, navy, white and translucent black and green against a pink beaded ground on the other side
The bag: 11¼in. (28.5cm.) long; the strap extended: 56½in. (143.5cm.) long
Provenance
Originally collected by the Honorable Joshua Marsden Luce and passed through the family to the present owner. Joshua Marsden Luce was born August 18, 1830. In March 1857, he moved to Kansas, where he opened up a farm and operated a saw-mill until 1877. In 1858 he was Enrolling Clerk of the Territorial Council, and was afterwards for a time, assistant clerk for Honorable Hugh S. Wash, Sectretary of Kansas Territory, and became Acting Governor in 1859. He was then appointed Assistant Indian Agent for the Sauk and Fox. In 1866 he was elected a member of the Kansas House of Representatives and re-elected in 1870. In 1867 he was appointed clerk in the United States Senate committee on Public Lands for which he served one year. He then accepted a clerkship in the United States Treasury Department, a positon from which he resigned in less than a year and returned to his farm in Kansas. He was married at Centropolis, August 10, 1860 to Miss Susan Keithly. According to the family this bag has been in the family since the year 1860 or 1864. This lot will be offered with documentation to this effect provided by the family.