Woven Belt with fiber tassles on both ends, lined in two rows of 13 cowry shells. (26 total) Center of belt has woven strip running length of belt, half dyed reddish-pink, perhaps loss of color on other half.
Donor:
Dorothy Mark
Collection place:
South Pacific Islands
Verbatim coll. place:
South Pacific Islands
Culture or time period:
Oceanian cultures
Collector:
Robert M. Wales
Collection date:
1945
Materials:
Shell (animal material)
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Belts (costume accessories)
Function:
2.0 Use not specified (Secular Dress and Accoutrements, and Adornment)
Accession date:
August 23, 2004
Department:
Oceania
Dimensions:
Belt itself— width 7.5 centimeters, length 131.5 centimeters, and Belt itself— length 71 centimeters