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Belt
Belt
Datec. 1875
MediumLeather with brass tacks, glass beads, sinew, and thread
DimensionsOverall: 2 1/2 in. × 66 in. × 1/4 in. (6.4 × 167.6 × 0.6 cm)
Credit LineGift of James H. Glass, H1912; Transferred from the Knox Hall of Natural History, Hamilton College
Object number1984.539
Not on view
DescriptionBead and rivet belt. "Crow - Nez Perce panel belt, beaded on harness leather, decorated w/ brass tacks."

Additional Details

Provenance 1984: Hamilton College (Emerson Gallery), by transfer from the Anthropology Department;
by 1979 - 1984: Hamilton College (Anthropology Department), by transfer from the Knox Hall of Natural History;
c. 1881: Hamilton College (Knox Hall of Natural History), by gift of James H. Glass.
Inscribed Inscribed in ink on verso: NA [illegible]13
Knife sheath
Date: c. 1875
Medium: Rawhide with brass tacks, glass seed beads, and red paint
Object number: 1984.541
Beaded blanket strip
Date: c. 1875
Medium: Tanned leather, sinew, and glass beads
Object number: 1984.532
Photograph by John Bentham.
Date: date unknown
Medium: Leather with beads
Object number: 1984.1.1a-b
Beaded pouch
Date: c. 1875
Medium: Leather with sinew and glass seed beads
Object number: 1984.534
Amulet with coin pendant
Date: c. 1875
Medium: Leather with glass beads, metal, and coin
Object number: 1984.538
Photo by John Bentham.
Date: 20th century
Medium: Glass beads, metal washers, brass US millitary button, cotton, thread
Object number: 2024.3.7
Moccasins
Date: c. 1875
Medium: Leather with glass beads, porcupine quill, dyed horsehair-filled tin cone dangles, and cotton cloth
Object number: 1984.540a-b
Photograph by John Bentham.
Date: c. 1870-75
Medium: Leather with dentalium shells and trade beads
Object number: 1984.456
Woman's belt fragment
Date: 19th century
Medium: Silk
Object number: S2024.5.18
Fragment of a beaded loop
Date: unknown
Medium: Leather and glass beads
Object number: 1984.536
Knife sheath
Date: c. 1875
Medium: Leather with rawhide, glass beads, and sinew
Object number: 1984.543
© Jeffrey Gibson. Image courtesy of the Ruth and Elmer Wellin Museum of Art at Hamilton College…
Jeffrey Gibson
Date: 2015
Medium: Glass and plastic beads, tin cones, steel and brass studs, nylon fringe, and artificial sinew on repurposed wool army blanket, mounted on repurposed canvas punching bag with steel chain
Object number: 2016.5