- Collection type
- Object
- Description
- Woman's belt with 72 sets of frontal mandibular teeth attached, each set having eight teeth (576 teeth). Sets are inward-pointing and overlapping starting at the ends. Graduated from smallest at ends to largest at centre. [El.B 'DCF 2004-2006 What's Upstairs?' 6/12/2005]
- Geographical reference
- Western USA Alaska Icy Cape "northeast of Icy Cape"
- Person
- Field collector Frederick William Beechey
- Field collector HMS Blossom
- PRM source Ashmolean Museum, University of Oxford
- Date / Period
- Date made: On or before 1826
- Date collected
- 1826
- Acquisition information
- Transferred: 11/03/1886
- Materials and processes
- Material Caribou Bone Deer Animal, Material Caribou Tooth Deer Animal, Material Animal Hide Skin, Material Seal Skin Animal, Material Animal Tooth, Process Stitched
- Dimensions
- Width: max 25 mm, Length: max 680 mm
- Object numbers
- Accession number: 1886.1.665 Other numbers: 367
- Research and responses
This object does not appear in the list of Beechey objects in Collectors Miscellaneous XI 71 - 75 [AP 20/7/99]
Please note that there was no further information about Beechey on the Donor Index cards at the Ashmolean Museum, Department of Antiquities. [L.Ph 23/3/2004]
Observations provided by research visitors from Wales and Kotzebue Sound, Alaska. 23.1.2008. The belt would have originally had a length of line attached to it to make it large enough to wear. This style of belt was common in Wales, but not during the group members' lifetimes. This information was provided by research visitors from Wales and Kotzebue Sound, Alaska. 23.1.2008 [SM 24/01/2008]
Search terms: Ornament, Clothing Headgear, Head Ornament, Headgear, Belt, Waist Ornament