Shell Belt
date: label: Accession Date
content: 1876
name: label: Collector
content: Stephen Powers
label: Donor Name
content: Stephen Powers
notes: label: Notes
content: FROM CARD: "ILLUS. HNDBK OF N. AMER. INDIANS, VOL. 8, CALIFORNIA, FIG. 5, PG. 229. "DEERSKIN BELT DECORATED WITH OLIVELLA AND OTHER SHELLS, GLASS TRADE BEADS AND BUTTONS." FROM CARD: "BELT (ETOOH).---STRIP OF DEERSKIN, 2 INCHES WIDE, TO WHICH ARE SECURED ON ONE SIDE NUMEROUS OLIVELLA SHELLS, AND TO WHICH ARE PENDANT, BY MEANS OF FRINGE ON LOWER EDGE OF SAME, OLIVELLA AND ORBICULA, PIECES OF HALIOTIS SHELL, BUTTONS, BEADS, AND PACHYDESMA. ACHOMAWIS INDIANS, PIT RIVER. LENGTH, 2 FT. 3 INS. WIDTH, 2 INS. CALIFORNIA, 1875. 21,382. COLLECTED BY STEPHEN POWERS."
label: Record Last Modified
content: 28 Apr 2016
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Pit River, California, United States, North America
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Achumawi (Achomawi, Ajumawi)
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 004856
label: USNM Number
content: E21382-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Belt
physicalDescription: label: Length - Object
content: 69 cm
label: Width - Object
content: 5 cm