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Medium: Alligator
Date: c.1938
Country: USA
Credit: Gift of Rene Resnick Gratz
Alligator bags were not new, but designers often utilized the whole animal in the 1930s, a trend that seems barbarous today.
Object Number: 2010.33.1
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