Belt
date: label: Accession Date
content: 20 Mar 1931
name: label: Donor Name
content: Victor J. Evans
notes: label: Notes
content: From card: "Decorated caribou hide with overlay of caribou teeth and light blue beads of glass. Purchased for $125 at Ye Olde Curiosity Shoppe at Seattle, Washington. Additional info. in Lab Acc. file."
label: Notes
content: Illus. Fig. 296 p. 224 in Fitzhugh, William W., and Aron Crowell. 1988. Crossroads of continents: cultures of Siberia and Alaska. Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press. Identified there: "Caribou teeth belt, Bering Sea Eskimo. Hunters removed the lower front teeth of the caribou they killed, which were used to decorate women's belts. The hundreds of caribou represented by the teeth on this belt, along with the lavish use of very old blue Chinese trade beads, indicated the prosperity of the wearer and her family. Flagellation with caribou teeth belts was a curing method."
label: Record Last Modified
content: 7 Jul 2021
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Alaska, United States, North America
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Athabascan (Athabaskan)
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 113605
label: USNM Number
content: E358255-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Belt