Belt And Necklace
date: label: Accession Date
content: 9 Nov 1967
name: label: Donor Name
content: Dr. Spurgeon C. Crosby II
notes: label: Notes
content: From card: "A. Belt of light colored morocco leather backed and edged with red morocco. In one end is sewn double buckle straps and on the underside, 27.0 cm. from end, is sewn a piece of commercial leather which originally held two metal buckles, one of which is now missing. Face is decorated with two rows of circular, thin silver buckles [brooches or pins] sewn on with red thread. One silver buckle missing and two damaged when received at the U.S.N.M. In center is sewn a thin, silver, openwork heart. Keeper at strap and constructed like belt and with same decorations. Donor said that this belt was reputedly provided by the U.S. Government at the time of President Garfield's death, for a Delaware Indian messenger to wear in carrying the news of the death to the tribe. Originally a broad, thick flint arrowhead hung from edge of belt just below the heart. Missing when presented to U.S.N.M. B. Beads: L. 2.34M doubled: Loop of imitation [glass] black wampum beads interspersed with 19 white ones. These were originally fastened in festoons to lower edge of belt. See drawing with accession papers."
label: Record Last Modified
content: 4 May 2022
label: Specimen Count
content: 2
place: label: Place
content: New Jersey (collected here), United States, North America
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Delaware (Lenape) (?)
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 275613
label: USNM Number
content: E409081-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Belt / Necklace