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Object Number
995-29-10/73113
Display Title
Concha belt of sandcast silver conchas set with turquoise
Descriptions
Object Description
Concha belt from 1960s-1970s. Belt consists of one large heavy rectangular buckle with stylized fleur-de-lis with a turquoise cabuchon set in a poor quality bezel surrounded by commercial beading. Belt is very rough-cut leather strip. It has six wagon-wheel sandcast motifs with eight spokes leading to a ridged rim with one piece of poor turquoise set in a poor bezel The wagon wheels are interspaced by butterfly spacers with turkey-wing motif and hearts on the sides with poor turquoise in the center set with a poor bezel.
Buckle: 6.5 cm high, 8.5 cm wide, 2.5 cm deep.
Conchas: 5.7 cm high, 7 cm wide, 1 cm deep.
Spacers: 4.8 cm high, 3.5 cm wide, 1 cm deep.
Total belt length: 114 cm
Inventory Description
Belt, leather strap, mounted silver and turquoise ornaments and buckle
Classification
- Belt
Department
Ethnographic
Date
1960-1979
Culture
- Navajo
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
North America
/
United States
/
New Mexico?
North America / United States / Arizona?
North America / United States / Arizona?
Materials
Silver, Leather, Turquoise
Dimensions
Overall: 112 x 7 x 1.7 cm (44 1/8 x 2 3/4 x 11/16 in.)
Quantity
1
Label on object
995-29-10/73113
Provenance
Collector
Dr. William R. Wright
(1995)
Donor
Dr. William R. Wright
(1995)
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