From card: "Flat wide mouthed bag of red wool strouding, lined inside with coarse linen cloth, and decorated all over the outside in small open diamond-shaped design in smallest sized white, red, pink & blue beads. Collector Rev. H. Hyvernat".
Henri Eugene Xavier Louis Hyvernat (30 June 1858 in Saint-Julien-en-Jarret, now part of L'Horme, Loire department, France - 30 May 1941 in Washington, D.C.) was a Franco-American Coptologist, Semitist and orientalist. In 1897, he was appointed the first professor and founding director of the Department of Oriental Studies at the Catholic University of America in Washington, DC.
