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Description: | Hip ornament consisting of a heavy, dark, ovoid wood block of bulbous semi-circular section, pierced and pointed at both ends. Block is held across the small of the back by a fibre belt of multiple strands of twisted vegetable fibre, some of which are threaded with small blue and white beads. It is marked 'belly band, for putting the string of the bow against', also labelled as a sleeping stool.
Material: wood
Material: vegetable fibre
Material: bead
image | Source: | Tyne & Wear Archives & Museums | Identifier: | emu.ecatalogue.ethnography.63761 | Go to resource |
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