Coin purse. Culture: Mexican. Date: 1790-1810.The stylized double-headed eagle seen here is a conventionalized image; other images appear to be free-form creations of the maker. The text on the border roughly translates as: "I serve my little father the senor? Dn Jose Cone?ares," a humorous self-reference to the coin purse and its owner. The purse is part of the Mexican beadwork collection of over 600 pieces assembled by Elizabeth Morrow (1873-1955), mother of writer Anne Morrow Lindbergh, the wife of renowned aviator Charles Lindbergh. Morrow collected the objects between 1927 and 1930, when her husband, Dwight Morrow, Sr., served as U.S. ambassador to Mexico. She lent the collection to the Brooklyn Museum in 1938 and upon her death, her children donated it. A collection of 155 pieces of Mexican ceramics and other decorative arts were given to Amherst College, her husband's alma mater. Mrs. Morrow collected Mexican beadwork, along with other examples of colonial and native arts,