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Breast belt with hunter’s accessories. Saami

Title:

Breast belt with hunter’s accessories

Ethnic groups:

Saami

Territory:

Ponoi district, Murmansk Okrug, churchyard Lumbovsky

Date:

Late 19th century

Collectors-person:
Charnolusky Vladimir V.
Zolotarev David A.
Material:

Leather; cloth: cloth; bone; metal; glass; stone: mother-of-pearl

Number:

РЭМ 4848-8

Annotation:

Breast belt with hunter’s accessories The belt is made of a a strip of deer skin suede, and covered on the front with red cloth embroidered with beads and mother-of-pearl buttons. The following articles are tied to its edge on leather strings: a staghorn mallet; a screwdriver for the rifle; two little bags of deer skin suede trimmed with fox fur and also covered with red cloth and decorated with beads; a powder flask of cow horn, on whose flat surfaces are scratched images of deer antlers; an elongated staghorn shot charger. Abstract by A.A. Zankovskaya