belt
- Museum number
- Oc1969,13.55
- Description
-
Register 1969
Waist belt made of plaited vegetable fibre with a pattern in applied plaited bands. Loop and cord; long pendant in square plait decorated with cassowary feathers at the cord end.
- Dimensions
-
Length: 22.50 inches (main body)
- Curator's comments
- Register 1969
Another [of Oc1969,13.54]: plaited vegetable fibre with pattern in applied plaited bands. Loop and cord; long pendant in square plait decorated with cassowary feathers at cord end.
52-55 From JIPAER, AGANI, MBIWAR LAUT and KOMOR villages (not individually located). No numbers.
55. Cords and pendant damaged.
ASMAT area, S.E. WEST IRIAN, NEW GUINEA. Collected in or about 1968.
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1969
- Acquisition notes
- Collected in or about 1968.
- Department
- Africa, Oceania and the Americas
- Registration number
- Oc1969,13.55