Tie-belt (?). Made of beadwork. Open work tubular beadwork with white (crystal) and blue glass twisted pattern interspersed with gold colored metallic beads. Gold colored beads and glass beads in 1-2 sequence. Belt fragment (a) ends in large light blue glass bead with foil trim, flanked by 2 light blue beads and tassel. Tassel has 3 blue and 3 crystal bead loops with round blue beads centered on each. Belt fragment (b) has repairs near center. (a) and (b) are fragments of original. (cont'd in Comments)
Donor:
Barbara Patty
Collection place:
Great Lakes, United States
Verbatim coll. place:
; Great Lakes
Culture or time period:
Great Lakes cultures
Collector:
James Canfield
Collection date:
unknown
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Belts (costume accessories)
Department:
Native US and Canada (except California)
Dimensions:
(b)— length 39.5 centimeters and (a)— length 113 centimeters
Comment:
(cont'd from Description) 16 round light blue beads, seed beads in crystal and light blue. (Loose beads are in plastic bag.) "Acquired by collector when he was a surveyor for Indian reservations." References: "cf. Cat. No. 2-67054 A-C.