Stomp dance sash. Main colors run lengthwise. Colors (center to edge): black and yellow framed by orange, framed by red and white, framed by maroon and yellow, framed by light blue and white or yellow. Light blue 3-stitch blocks equally spaced apart across edge of orange and red panels. Center section of belt is loom-woven, ending in three 4-ply braids, each with a single color tassel added separately. Each woven end of belt has two braids in colors of: red, white, light blue, yellow, and maroon. White and light blue are combined in one braid, white and yellow in other. Third braid colors: orange, yellow, light blue, and black. Six braids with tassel in each color: black, orange, yellow, maroon, red, light blue. Tassels are of bundled yarn tied onto braid end, folded back and bound to form ball and tassel. Edge of woven section outside edge is not symmetrical, one edge is light blue with yellow, other is light blue with white and yellow. Such belts are worn by both men and women during stomp dances and other Woodland dances in Oklahoma, particularly by the Creek, Euchee (Yuchi), Seminole, and Shawnee.

This belt appears to have been woven on a loom. Belts were worn in stomp dances.
Tags: belt, woven
People: Muscogee (Creek)
Places: Southeast, Oklahoma
Purpose: ceremonial use

From interviews with Dr. Garrick Bailey, 2018-2020 University of Tulsa, Professor Emeritus of Anthropology