Belt

Museum number:
2-4914a-h
Permalink:
ark:/21549/hm21024914a@2dh
Alternate number:
99 (original number)
Accession number:
Acc.14
Description:
With pendant pouches, etc. (a) belt: commercially tanned leather with 14 discs of silver-colored metal; metal buckle. Attached are: (b) twig bundle; (c) top of awl case (bead-covered buckskin with tin cones); (d) triangular pouch of heavily fringed buckskin with design of clear and black beads; pouch filled with vermillion powder; (e) rectangular leather pouch with flap, red, white, and blue beads and conical tinklers; (f) awl case of leather covered with beaded running [cont'd in Comments]
Donor:
Phoebe Apperson Hearst
Collection place:
Great Plains, North America
Verbatim coll. place:
; Great Plains
Culture or time period:
Comanche and Kiowa
Collector:
Hugh Lenox Scott
Collection date:
1901
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Belts (costume accessories)
Context of use:
Worn by woman. Wearing apparel with pouches and containers.
Department:
Native US and Canada (except California)
Dimensions:
(a)— length 129 centimeters, (c)— length 6 centimeters, (d)— length 15 centimeters, (h)— length 17 centimeters, (e)— length 17 centimeters, and (f)— 36 centimeters
Comment:
[Object Description, cont''d] diamonds on red ground; tin-wrapped pendant buckskin, white cylindrical shell beads at top; (g) leather pouch with separate cover, 2 cylindrical shell beads at top; (h) leather pouch with multicolor diamonds and triangles of glass beads, conical tin tinkler fringe; pouch stuffed with strips of blue cloth with white polka dots.
Loans:
S1983-1984 #4: City of Palo Alto (August 22, 1983–January 11, 1984)
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Belt, accession number 2-4914a-h, described as With pendant pouches, etc. (a) belt: commercially tanned leather with 14 discs of silver-colored metal; metal buckle. Attached are: (b) twig bundle; (c) top of awl case (bead-covered buckskin with tin cones); (d) triangular pouch of heavily fringed buckskin with design of clear and black beads; pouch filled with vermillion powder; (e) rectangular leather pouch with flap, red, white, and blue beads and conical tinklers; (f) awl case of leather covered with beaded running [cont'd in Comments]Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Belt, accession number 2-4914a-h, described as With pendant pouches, etc. (a) belt: commercially tanned leather with 14 discs of silver-colored metal; metal buckle. Attached are: (b) twig bundle; (c) top of awl case (bead-covered buckskin with tin cones); (d) triangular pouch of heavily fringed buckskin with design of clear and black beads; pouch filled with vermillion powder; (e) rectangular leather pouch with flap, red, white, and blue beads and conical tinklers; (f) awl case of leather covered with beaded running [cont'd in Comments]Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Belt, accession number 2-4914a-h, described as With pendant pouches, etc. (a) belt: commercially tanned leather with 14 discs of silver-colored metal; metal buckle. Attached are: (b) twig bundle; (c) top of awl case (bead-covered buckskin with tin cones); (d) triangular pouch of heavily fringed buckskin with design of clear and black beads; pouch filled with vermillion powder; (e) rectangular leather pouch with flap, red, white, and blue beads and conical tinklers; (f) awl case of leather covered with beaded running [cont'd in Comments]

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