Belt Item Number: 2833/28 from the MOA: University of British Columbia

Description

Multicoloured woven belt with horizontal square and rectangular sections decorated with images of people, animals, abstract and geometric shapes. Recognizable animals include rabbits and birds. The sections of human imagery depict two standing figures in profile facing each other; they are both wearing hats and triangular grey skirts. Tassle ends each have one long large oblong object wrapped with horizontal stripes of dark purple, yellow, dark pink, and grey-blue tufted yarn. Two loops of stiff plastic(?) are wrapped in synthetic thread protruding from the bottom of the oblong object. Each loop has two more loops threaded through it, wrapped at the centre with tufts of synthetic yarn in dark pink, grey green, purple, and dark yellow. The ends of the four loops each have a skein of yarn in a matching colour tied to the bottom.