Belt
- Museum number:
- 11-44092
- Permalink:
- ark:/21549/hm21110044092
- Accession number:
- Acc.4741
- Description:
- Woven Belt with fiber tassles on both ends, lined with two rows of 16 cowry shells (32 total). Center of belt has woven strip running length of belt and X-shaped fiber designs, dyed an orange-ish color.
- Donor:
- Dorothy Mark
- Collection place:
- South Pacific Islands
- Verbatim coll. place:
- South Pacific Islands
- Culture or time period:
- Oceanian cultures
- Collector:
- Robert M. Wales
- Collection date:
- 1945
- Materials:
- Shell (animal material)
- Object type:
- ethnography
- Object class:
- Belts (costume accessories)
- Function:
- 2.0 Use not specified (Secular Dress and Accoutrements, and Adornment)
- Accession date:
- August 23, 2004
- Department:
- Oceania
- Dimensions:
- Belt itself— width 6 centimeters, length 116.5 centimeters, and Belt itself— length 68 centimeters
- Images:
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