Leather harness with sleigh bells from the Rock Rest Tourist Home
date: label: Date
content: mid 20th century
name: label: Manufactured by
content: Unidentified
label: Owned by
content: Clayton Sinclair, American
label: Owned by
content: Hazel Sinclair, American
label: Subject of
content: Rock Rest Tourist Home, American, 1948 - 1976
notes: label: Description
content: A leather harness with twenty-four (24) sleigh bells. The harness is a wide, brown, leather strap that tapers at both ends. There are two metal buckles at either end of the strap. The bells are brass and trumpet shaped with ball tipped clappers. The bells are attached to the strap with embedded metal hooks and are separated from the leather with red plastic cutouts at the base of each hook. The back of the strap is plain, cracked leather.
place: label: Place collected
content: Kittery, York County, Maine, United States, North and Central America
topic: label: Topic
content: African American
label: Topic
content: Black Enterprise
label: Topic
content: Black interiors
label: Topic
content: Business
label: Topic
content: Ornamentation
label: Topic
content: Recreation
label: Topic
content: Segregation
label: Topic
content: Travel
setName: label: See more items in
content: National Museum of African American History and Culture Collection
label: Collection title
content: The Rock Rest Tourist Home Collection
label: Classification
content: Furnishings, Housewares, and Décor
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, Gift of Portsmouth Black Heritage Trail, Inc.
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of African American History and Culture
identifier: label: Object number
content: 2011.12.39
objectType: label: Type
content: sleigh bells
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: No known copyright restrictions
label: Restrictions & Rights
content: Proper usage is the responsibility of the user.
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: leather with brass (alloy) , metal and plastic
label: Dimensions
content: H x W x D: 34 7/16 × 2 3/4 × 1 9/16 in. (87.5 × 7 × 4 cm)