belt (clothing: accessories)

Belt (cotton and leather). Woven in coloured wefts over heavy black warp; stripes of plain colour and stripes of herring-bone and saw-tooth pattern in red green white and black. Three iron buckles on leather straps and sewn into a leather panel fasten onto three thin leather straps set about a third of the length of the belt. This third is double and may have been used as a pocket. The remainder of the belt is single and presumably wraps around the body. Finished with a tassle. 70" x 3". [textile]

object
MUSEUM NUMBER
8.12.64/23
PLACE
COLLECTION
MEASUREMENTS
overall: 70 x 3 in.; 1778 x 76.2 mm
MATERIAL/TECHNIQUE
cotton, leather
CATEGORY
Anthropology: Ethnography
LOCATION
In storage
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