Belt

Museum number:
2-61604
Permalink:
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Accession number:
Acc.3323
Description:
Made of beadwork; 17 6-pointed stars in two alternating sets of colors on white ground, each separated by two vertical bars; top and bottom borders of purple parallelograms on pink; glass seed beads; buckskin flaps and ties at both ends.
Donor:
Virginia Vail
Collection place:
Wind River Reservation, Wind River, Wind River County
Verbatim coll. place:
Wyoming; Wind River Reservation
Culture or time period:
Eastern Shoshone
Collector:
James K. Moore Sr.
Collection date:
ca. 1900
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Belts (costume accessories)
Function:
2.2 Personal Adornments and Accoutrements
Department:
Native US and Canada (except California)
Dimensions:
length 92.5 centimeters and width 5 centimeters
Images:
Hearst Museum object 1 of 4 titled Belt, accession number 2-61604, described as Made of beadwork; 17 6-pointed stars in two alternating sets of colors on white ground, each separated by two vertical bars; top and bottom borders of purple parallelograms on pink; glass seed beads; buckskin flaps and ties at both ends.Hearst Museum object 2 of 4 titled Belt, accession number 2-61604, described as Made of beadwork; 17 6-pointed stars in two alternating sets of colors on white ground, each separated by two vertical bars; top and bottom borders of purple parallelograms on pink; glass seed beads; buckskin flaps and ties at both ends.Hearst Museum object 3 of 4 titled Belt, accession number 2-61604, described as Made of beadwork; 17 6-pointed stars in two alternating sets of colors on white ground, each separated by two vertical bars; top and bottom borders of purple parallelograms on pink; glass seed beads; buckskin flaps and ties at both ends.Hearst Museum object 4 of 4 titled Belt, accession number 2-61604, described as Made of beadwork; 17 6-pointed stars in two alternating sets of colors on white ground, each separated by two vertical bars; top and bottom borders of purple parallelograms on pink; glass seed beads; buckskin flaps and ties at both ends.
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Belt, accession number 2-61604, described as Made of beadwork; 17 6-pointed stars in two alternating sets of colors on white ground, each separated by two vertical bars; top and bottom borders of purple parallelograms on pink; glass seed beads; buckskin flaps and ties at both ends.

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