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Object Number
995-29-10/73100
Display Title
Silver and turquoise ranger belt set on tooled leather belt
Descriptions
Object Description
Navajo belt set from 1970s. Ranger belt set on a hand-tooled leather belt with a separate narrower attachment on the end of the belt to be fastened in the buckle. The set consists of a buckle, with seven nuggets of heavy-guage turquoise set in bezels on a cast base with silver balls between the stones. The two loops each have a turquoise nugget set on them, as does the tip. It also has some tooled applied sheet silver. Reverse is stamped with "H. IULE" (Horace Iule) (Bowers says it is "H. TULE"...), hallmark of Horace Iule.
Buckle is 7 cm long, 6 cm wide, 2.5 cm deep; overall belt length is 119 cm, including buckle.
Hallmark identified in: Wright, Barton. Hallmarks of the Southwest. West Chester, PA: Schiffer Publishing Co. 1989.
Inventory Description
Leather belt, brown, stamped, silver buckle and tip, with turquoise inlay.
Classification
- Belt
Department
Ethnographic
Date
1970-1979
Artist
Horace Iule
Culture
- Navajo
- Zuñi
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
North America
/
United States
/
Arizona
North America / United States / New Mexico
North America / United States / New Mexico
Materials
Silver, Leather, Turquoise
Dimensions
Overall: 119 x 5.9 x 2.7 cm (46 7/8 x 2 5/16 x 1 1/16 in.)
Distance (Overall): 119 x 2.5 x 6 x 7 cm (1 x 2 3/8 x 2 3/4 in.)
Quantity
1
Label on object
995-29-10/73100
Provenance
Collector
Dr. William R. Wright
(1995)
Donor
Dr. William R. Wright
(1995)
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