Object Details
- Collection History
- Collection history unknown; purchased by MAI in 1929 from an unknown source in Hamburg, Germany, using funds donated by Thea (Mrs. George) Heye.
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- Data Source
- National Museum of the American Indian
- Culture/People
- Enxet (Lengua)
- Presenter/funding source
- Thea Heye (Thea Kowne/Mrs. Dorothea Page/Mrs. George Gustav Heye), Non-Indian, 1888-1935
- Object Name
- Dance belt
- Media/Materials
- Feather/feathers, bird beak, cordage
- Techniques
- Wrapped, tied
- Object Type
- Clothing/Garments: Accessories
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