Belt
- Museum number:
- 2-7293
- Permalink:
- ark:/21549/hm21020007293
- Accession number:
- Acc.36
- Description:
- For woman, rawhide with sewn rows of caribou incisor teeth, in two places where rawhide is sewn are no rows of teeth (missing?). Sewn with rawhide and made with caribou teeth from lower Jaw with bone attached.
- Donor:
- Darius Ogden Mills and Older University Collections
- Collection place:
- Kuskokwim, Bethel Census Area, Alaska
- Verbatim coll. place:
- Alaska; Kuskokwim
- Culture or time period:
- Alaskan Eskimo
- Collector:
- unknown
- Collection date:
- unknown
- Taxon:
- Rangifer tarandus caribou
- Object type:
- ethnography
- Object class:
- Belts (costume accessories)
- Accession date:
- January 22, 1901
- Context of use:
- According to Elizabeth Goodwin, belts like this are courting gifts presented to a woman by her prospective husband.
- Department:
- Native US and Canada (except California)
- Dimensions:
- width 3 centimeters and length 100 centimeters
- Comment:
- References: Cf. Nelson p. 59; also see Catalogue of Sheldon Jackosn Museum, p. 93.
- Legacy documentation:
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