- Collection type
- Object
- Description
- Fibre string girdle, dyed purplish brown. [ASh [OPS move] 13/12/2016]
- Long description
- Fibre string girdle, dyed purplish brown. Consisting of a narrow band of six thin plaits placed side by side, the ends plaited into loops, which have then been looped through the opposing ends of the belt. [ASh [OPS move] 13/12/2016]
- Date / Period
- Date made: Before 1942
- Date collected
- By 1942
- Acquisition information
- Donated: 1942
- Materials and processes
- Material String, Material Plant Fibre, Material Pigment, Process Plaited, Process Dyed
- Dimensions
- Width: max 41 mm, Length: max 370 mm
- Object numbers
- Accession number: 1942.13.1520 Other numbers: 263 a-f
Search terms: Ornament, Waist Ornament
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