Bead Belt
date: label: Accession Date
content: 8 Jun 1960
label: Collection Date
content: 1943 to 1945
name: label: Collector
content: Mr. Arthur T. Semple
label: Donor Name
content: Organizacion de los Estados Americanos
notes: label: Notes
content: Per card, originally catalogued as Mbulu? Identified as Iraqw by curator Ivan Karp, 6/1984. From card: "9 rows of blue, white, and red glass beads in bands separated by narrow strips of leather. End carries a tassel-like cluster of cow[r]ie shells and iron bells, with brass beads on leather strings."
label: Notes
content: On exhibit in NMNH Sant Ocean Hall. 2014 exhibit caption identifies this as an Iraqw ritual belt: "This ritual belt has glass beads from Europe and cowrie shells from the Indian Ocean - symbols of wealth to the inland Iraqw."
label: Record Last Modified
content: 26 Mar 2015
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: North, Tanzania, Africa
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Iraqw
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 231211
label: USNM Number
content: E398048-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Belt