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Woven dance belt in blue and white horizontal stripes / Louis Fish

Essay/Description

Belt is heddle/loom woven. Tassels are braided in a three-ply technique. A yarn dance belt with three tasseled cords at its middle point and two on each end. Blue and white yarn woven to produce horizontal stripes. Two panels are joined with three braided tassels at the mid-point (which is worn at one hip). The pairs of tassels at each end are knotted together at the other hip, closing the belt around the waist.

Curatorial Remarks

This belt is constructed using the heddle weave technique. The yarn used to make the belt is a worsted weight yarn.

Karen Berry, Cherokee artist, 2019.

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Title(s): 
Woven dance belt in blue and white horizontal stripes
Creator(s): 
Louis Fish (Artist)
Culture: 
Native American; Muscogee (Creek)
Date: 
1997
Place: 
Muskogee, Oklahoma
Materials/Techniques: 
wool
Object Type: 
Credit Line: 
Purchase made possible by The Fund for Folk Culture/Lila Wallace Reader's Digest Community Folklife Fund
Accession No: 
95.10
Previous Number(s): 
TL1997.91; TL1997.91
Department: 
Not On View

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