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- Date
- 1930 – 1950
- Material
- skin
- Catalogue Number
- 103.07.0086
- Description
- A belt made of fourteen octagonal links of painted rawhide or buckskin stiffened with gesso joined together by two long buckskin thongs, passing through two holes at the ends of each link. Has been gessoed, then painted around edge with red border, and a green border set inside that. At centre is e…
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- Title
- Belt
- Date
- 1930 – 1950
- Material
- skin
- Dimensions
- 4.0 x 83.0 cm
- Description
- A belt made of fourteen octagonal links of painted rawhide or buckskin stiffened with gesso joined together by two long buckskin thongs, passing through two holes at the ends of each link. Has been gessoed, then painted around edge with red border, and a green border set inside that. At centre is either a red or purple diamond shape painted in green outline with a border around defined by another green line. The links have been varnished front and back giving them a yellow colour.
- Subject
- Indigenous
- regalia
- Credit
- Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1979
- Catalogue Number
- 103.07.0086
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