Leather buckle and strap, metal tongue. Red, white and blue glass seed bead band backed with commercial red cotton cloth forms decorative part of belt. Design is lengthwise blue band bordered in white with projecting white forms. Commercially tanned leather.
Donor:
Mr. W. W. Lyman, Sarah A. Lyman, and University Appropriation
Collection place:
Likely, Modoc County, California
Verbatim coll. place:
California; Modoc; Likely
Culture or time period:
Achumawi
Collector:
Mr. W. W. Lyman
Collection date:
1902
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Belts (costume accessories)
Function:
5.3 Objects relating to the Secular and Quasi-religious Rites, Pageants, and Drama
Accession date:
1969
Context of use:
Probably worn at dances.
Department:
Native California (archaeology and ethnology)
Dimensions:
length 89.3 centimeters and length 66 centimeters
Loans:
S1983-1984 #4: City of Palo Alto (August 22, 1983–January 11, 1984)