Beaded Pouch
date: label: Date
content: late 20th-early 21st Century
name: label: Artist
content: Ira Blount
notes: label: Caption
content: Artist Ira Blount (1918-2020) strings tiny beads together to create a pouch with bold geometric patterns. Glass seed beads in purple, white, green, silver, and gold form triangles on the pouch’s strap and flap, echoing the latter’s triangular shape. Diamonds and zigzags also pattern the pouch, which features fringe edging both the flap and the pouch’s bottom.
label: Caption
content: After moving to Washington, DC following World War II, Ira Blount mastered dozens of artisanal crafts. His love for crafting, learning, and community engagement would endure over the course of his long life and career.
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content: Anacostia Community Museum Collection
creditLine: label: Cite As
content: Gift of Ira Blount
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: Anacostia Community Museum
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 2011.0004.0116
objectType: label: Type
content: bag
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: glass beads, nylon thread
label: Dimensions
content: 9 3/16 × 2 7/16 × 5/16 in. (23.3 × 6.2 × 0.8 cm)