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PVC shoulder bag with red cord handles
Object/Artifact
Small flat shoulder/tote bag in white PVC (vinyl) sheet. Rectangular body with a reinforced top band pierced by two metal eyelets/grommets, through which pass long doubled handles of red solid PVC cord. A row of cut vertical slits runs across the body just below the top band; small tabs project at each upper side seam. The body now reads as plain white but originally carried a printed design (per cataloger), now lost/worn away.
2025.1.233
Purchased and used by María A. Arús Caraballo
Bought in a sate store.
The Cabrera Arús family collection
María A. Arús Caraballo collection
2025.1
33 cm
25 cm
handle length: 41
Synthetic
Materials: PVC (vinyl) sheet body; metal eyelets; red solid PVC cord handles — the type of cord used for jump ropes (per cataloger). Technique: Heat‑sealed/seamed PVC sheet construction; punched eyelets; cord handles threaded and knotted (inferred).
Fair
María A. Arús Caraballo
owner
Havana
Cuba
Caribbean
Central America
purchase
Cuban Finotype and Its Materiality
Body originally bore a printed design (per cataloger), now effaced
Handles made of jump‑rope–type PVC cord — a repurposed/improvised material