Belt

Museum number:
7-10059
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Alternate number:
MVC-0064 (previous number (MVC number, Mossman-Vitale collection))
Accession number:
Acc.4734
Description:
Belt; 66 cm l., 3.5 cm w., fringe 13.5 cm. Greek key pattern; connected rectangle pattern; abstract designs; black with gold and silver fron with yellowand silver stripe at one end, brown at other end; course off-white on back w/ black at one end and brass(?) at the other; fringe made of bunched weft threaqds, wrapped in black gold or pink. back is basted together with and wool threads in middle of back.
Donor:
Kathleen Vitale and Paul Vitale
Collection place:
Western Balkans
Verbatim coll. place:
Europe; Yugoslavia
Materials:
Cotton (textile), Gold (metal), Silver (metal), and Wool (textile)
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Belts (costume accessories)
Function:
2.0 Use not specified (Secular Dress and Accoutrements, and Adornment)
Accession date:
June 23, 2006
Department:
Europe and western Russia (except Classical Mediterranean)
Images:
Hearst Museum object titled Belt, accession number 7-10059, described as Belt; 66 cm l., 3.5 cm w., fringe 13.5 cm. Greek key pattern; connected rectangle pattern; abstract designs; black with gold and silver fron with yellowand silver stripe at one end, brown at other end; course off-white on back w/ black at one end and brass(?) at the other; fringe made of bunched weft threaqds, wrapped in black gold or pink. back is basted together with and wool threads in middle of back.

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