Leather Belt With Ornaments
date: label: Accession Date
content: 14 Jun 2005
label: Collection Date
content: 1960 to 1969
name: label: Collector
content: John T. Hitchcock
label: Donor Name
content: Catharine McClellan
notes: label: Notes
content: Wide goat leather belt attached to two straps that extend up across the body to the shoulders. Both have cowrie shell ornaments, with several brass bells attached along the upper straps. Belt has 2 rows of copper coins stitched to it. Attached to lower edge of belt are several chains with large bells and round hammered metal ornaments.
label: Notes
content: A shaman named Sakrante is shown wearing the object for ceremonial use in film "Gurkha Country" (available at the Human Studies Film Archives, 2007.7.1) and "Himalayan Shaman of Northern Nepal" (2007.7.3) and in photos (National Anthropological Archives, Hitchcock Collection, Box 53 "Buji Khola Pictures" from 1967, and Box 80 Album D.) It is also mentioned in articles (Box 36 "Siberia, Afghanistan, Bhuji Valley; Shaman and Culture", Chapter 2 Bhujel Shamanism, p 5-6.) Associated with bird/feather objects (catalog number E433302,433428, 433429, and 433303)
label: Record Last Modified
content: 27 Apr 2017
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Nepal, Asia
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Magar (?)
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 2032229
label: USNM Number
content: E433310-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Belt