Belt
- Museum number:
- 2-7292
- Permalink:
- ark:/21549/hm21020007292
- Accession number:
- Acc.36
- Description:
- For woman, rawhide with sewn rows of caribou incisor teeth. Sewn with rawhide and made with caribou teeth from lower Jaw with bone attached.
- Donor:
- Darius Ogden Mills and Older University Collections
- Collection place:
- Kuskokwim, Bethel Census Area, Alaska
- Verbatim coll. place:
- Alaska; Kuskokwim
- Culture or time period:
- Alaskan Eskimo
- Collector:
- unknown
- Collection date:
- unknown
- Object type:
- ethnography
- Object class:
- Belts (costume accessories)
- Accession date:
- January 22, 1901
- Context of use:
- According to Elizabeth Goodwin, belts like this are courting gifts presented to a woman by her prospective husband.
- Department:
- Native US and Canada (except California)
- Dimensions:
- length 78 centimeters and width 5.5 centimeters
- Legacy documentation:
-