Belt

Museum number:
5-14576
Permalink:
ark:/21549/hm21050014576
Accession number:
Acc.4023
Description:
Money belt, "ukenda." Goat leather stitched with white cotton thread with a metal belt buckle. Length 94 centimeters, width 5.5 centimeters. Made by men of the Wasiyu and is buckled around the Kikoi (male skirt) as decoration, holding knives and storing money by Swahili men.
Donor:
Linda Donley and University Appropriation
Collection place:
Siyu, Kenya
Verbatim coll. place:
Kenya; Siyu; Swahili
Culture or time period:
Swahili
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Belts (costume accessories)
Function:
7.5 Issued Currency and Associated Containers
Department:
Africa (except Ancient Egypt)
Images:
Hearst Museum object titled Belt, accession number 5-14576, described as Money belt, "ukenda." Goat leather stitched with white cotton thread with a metal belt buckle. Length 94 centimeters, width 5.5 centimeters. Made by men of the Wasiyu and is buckled around the Kikoi (male skirt) as decoration, holding knives and storing money by Swahili men.
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Belt, accession number 5-14576, described as Money belt, "ukenda." Goat leather stitched with white cotton thread with a metal belt buckle. Length 94 centimeters, width 5.5 centimeters. Made by men of the Wasiyu and is buckled around the Kikoi (male skirt) as decoration, holding knives and storing money by Swahili men.

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