Roga, hunter’s belt

Arkhangelsk Guberniya, Kem Uyezd, village

Late 19th century – early 20th century

Bone: horn; leather; metal

РЭМ 2321-2

It is a belt with items necessary for hunting attached to it: a powder horn; an ivory powder charger; “purse,” a leather pouch for bullets and spare flint stones; vyvertka, or screw driver for fixing the flint to the flintlock. Accessories to this kit were a wooden tamping stick for wads, and grouse whistles of goose quill. Abstract by O.G. Baranova