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Object Number
24-24-50/B4206
Display Title
Braided leather girdles terminating in fringed tassels
Descriptions
Inventory Description
Organic, woven hide ornaments with tassles and metal beads
Classification
- Ornament
Department
Archaeological
Culture
- Meroitic
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
Africa
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Sudan
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<State>
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<County>
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<City>
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Gammai
Intrasite
Cemetery Z, Grave A
Additional Geographic Terms
Nubia
Materials
Leather, Metal, Animal hide
Dimensions
Overall: 19.6 x 11.4 x 1.8 cm (7 11/16 x 4 1/2 x 11/16 in.)
Quantity
2
Label on object
B4206
Credit Line
Gift of Oric Bates, 1924
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PrimaryMedia | Object Number | Title | Classification | Geography/Provenience | SHARE |
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| 24-24-50/B4205 | Leather "rahat" girdles terminating in fringed tassels |
Belt
|
Gammai
| |
| 99-12-50/53185.1 | Belt, incised and pigmented leather, woven fiber medallions, 3 braided tassels |
Belt
|
Sudan
| |
| 67-9-60/173.2 | Quiver, leather with stitched and applique designs, 5 braided tassels, 2 straps |
Quiver
|
Asia
| |
| 15-36-10/86612 | Quiver of wolverine skin (entire). Mouth, fringed; buckskin fringes and tassels |
Quiver
|
British Columbia
| |
| 13-24-60/85164 | Woman's girdle tassels |
Ornament
|
Upper Burma
| |
| 40-39-10/19408 | One pair of moccasins--skin with rawhide soles; forked tongue with red tassels |
Moccasin
|
North America
| |
| 08-25-50/73551 | Belt, fiber tube covered with cowrie shells, leather tassels with 2 blue beads a |
Belt
|
Kenya
| |
| 78-5-30/16782 | Feather girdles? |
Accessory
Raw Material |
Amazonas
| |
| 91-6-70/50618 | Human hair girdles |
Accessory
|
Papua New Guinea
| |
| 29-4-50/H871.2 | Cord girdles (?) |
Ornament
|
Rock hill Arokanggi Mekbengge's chefferie
| |
| 29-4-50/H871.3 | Cord girdles (?) |
Ropes
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Rock hill Arokanggi Mekbengge's chefferie
| |
| 29-4-50/H871.1 | Cord girdles (?) |
Ornament
|
Rock hill Arokanggi Mekbengge's chefferie
|