Belt

Museum number:
5-16740
Permalink:
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Alternate number:
516740
Accession number:
Acc.4739
Description:
woven raffia belt; natural ground with blue-green band on each side on diamond shaped pattern down center. finished with a point at each end.
Donor:
Berta Bascom
Collection place:
Northern Africa
Verbatim coll. place:
N. Africa
Collector:
Berta Bascom and William Russell Bascom
Materials:
Raffia (fiber)
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Belts (costume accessories)
Function:
2.2 Personal Adornments and Accoutrements
Accession date:
June 23, 2004
Context of use:
clothing
Department:
Africa (except Ancient Egypt)
Dimensions:
length 115.4 centimeters and width 3.2 centimeters
Images:
Hearst Museum object 1 of 2 titled Belt, accession number 5-16740, described as woven raffia belt; natural ground with blue-green band on each side on diamond shaped pattern down center. finished with a point at each end.Hearst Museum object 2 of 2 titled Belt, accession number 5-16740, described as woven raffia belt; natural ground with blue-green band on each side on diamond shaped pattern down center. finished with a point at each end.

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