Belt
- Museum number:
- 2-376
- Permalink:
- ark:/21549/hm21020000376
- Accession number:
- Acc.46
- Description:
- Womans, rawhide with sewn rows of cribou incisor teeth, belt represents from 100-175 caribou, seal shaped charm of ivory at one end, leather loop at opposite end. Sewn with rawhide. Made with caribou teeth from the lower jaw with teeth attached.
- Donor:
- Phoebe Apperson Hearst
- Collection place:
- Kuskokwim, Bethel Census Area, Alaska
- Verbatim coll. place:
- Alaska; Kuskokwim
- Culture or time period:
- Alaskan Eskimo
- Collector:
- Charles L. Hall
- Collection date:
- unknown
- Object type:
- ethnography
- Object class:
- Belts (costume accessories)
- Accession date:
- August 12, 1902
- Context of use:
- According to Elizabeth Goodwin, belts such as these were presented to a woman by her prospective husband i.e. a courting gift.
- Department:
- Native US and Canada (except California)
- Dimensions:
- width 3 centimeters and length 103 centimeters
- Comment:
- References: Cf. Nelson p. 59; Cat of Sheldon Jackson Museum, p. 93.
- Legacy documentation:
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