Horse Trapping

42-39-21

From: Tibet

Curatorial Section: Asian

Object Number 42-39-21
Current Location Collections Storage
Provenience Tibet
Section Asian
Materials Leather | Metal
Description

Stitched leather strap (double thickness) with brass studs (47 on belt part), a few missing. Silver buckle (3cm x 4cm) on one end and two holes for buckle at the other end. One repaired section of strap sewn back together. Two shorter leather straps are stitched onto the belt. They are 18 cm long and are looped through a hole in 6cm x 8cm piece of white shell. One shell has 2 other small holes. Brass strip over leather looped through shell.

Credit Line Academy of Natural Sciences / University Museum Expedition to Southwest China and Tibet; Gordon T. Bowles, 1932
Other Number 92-1-86 - Found in Collection Number

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