Beaded Belt And Shooting Accessories
date: label: Accession Date
content: 1884
name: label: Collector
content: William J. Fisher
label: Donor Name
content: William J. Fisher
notes: label: Notes
content: From 19th or early 20th century exhibit label with card: "Hunters Belt with Attachments. - Made of numerous short strings of beads running through three narrow and parallel strips of buckskin. Attached to the belt by beaded strings are attached a powder horn, a bullet pouch, a cap box, a powder measure, a wad bag, and a pistol ramrod, all except the last named being covered with beadwork. Width, 1 3/4 inches. Kenai Indians (Athapascan stock), south of Cook's Inlet, Alaska, 1884. Collected by W. J. Fisher."
label: Notes
content: Source of the information below: Smithsonian Arctic Studies Center Alaska Native Collections: Sharing Knowledge website, by Aron Crowell, entry on this artifact http://alaska.si.edu/record.asp?id=612, retrieved 8-24-2012: Belt, Dena'ina. This bead-covered belt and shooting accessories may never have been worn for hunting; instead they were probably ceremonial gear for a man to use during celebrations or potlatch gatherings. The set is Dena'ina, from the Cook Inlet region. All the attachments are for supplies used with muzzle-loading guns: a horn for gunpowder, a pouch to hold lead shot, a pouch for percussion caps, a powder-measure, a wad pouch, and a wooden ramming tool.
label: Notes
content: This object is on loan to the Anchorage Museum at Rasmuson Center, from 2010 through 2027.
label: Notes
content: Illus. p. 297 in Jones, Suzi, James A. Fall, and Aaron Leggett. 2013. Dena'inaq' huch'ulyeshi: the Dena'ina way of living.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 3 Feb 2022
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Cook Inlet (South Of), Alaska, United States, North America
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Tanaina (Dena'ina)
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 015687
label: USNM Number
content: E74722-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Belt / Powder Horn / Powder Measure / Ammunition Bag / Ammunition Box / Ramrod
physicalDescription: label: Length - Object
content: 49 cm