Belt

Description

Belt, decorated with red pigment and a pattern of alternating panels of horizontal lozenges and vertical stripes, all in white cross hatching and broken lines, bark: Oceania, Australia, North West Australia, Australian Aboriginal, 19th or 20th century

Museum reference

A.1964.448

Collection

Oceania

Object name

Belt, Waist ornament

Production information

Unknown
North West Australia, Australia, Australasia

Date

19th - 20th century

Style / Culture

Australian Aboriginal

Materials

Bark, Pigment

Physical description

Bark; painted red and decorated with a pattern of horizontal lozenges and vertical stripes in white cross hatching and broken lines

Exhibitions

• Living Lands (29 Jul 2011)
  National Museum of Scotland

On display

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