Hip belt
Hip belt, decorated with imported beads in different motifs. Such belts were worn by women during harvest festivals. Modigliani (1894: 156) depicts a woman wearing a beaded belt. Helfrich (1888: 202) describes such belly belts as part of the clothing worn by women at the great harvest festivals: kaleak baba. The belts are worn in combination with necklaces and the typical English women's hats with…
Type of item
- Object Type: belt
- Belt
Date
- voor 1883
Medium
- Material: palm tree
- Material: vegetable origin fibres
- palm tree
- plant material
- Plant fiber
- Palm fibre
Type of item
- Object Type: belt
- Belt
Date
- voor 1883
Medium
- Material: palm tree
- Material: vegetable origin fibres
- palm tree
- plant material
- Plant fiber
- Palm fibre
Providing institution
Aggregator
Rights statement for the media in this item (unless otherwise specified)
- http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/
Creation date
- 1883
- 1883/1883
Provenance
- 1883-01-01
- Aankoop
Identifier
- RV-370-3016
- http://mint-projects.image.ntua.gr/europeana-fashion/656514
Is part of
- Europeana XX: Century of Change
Year
- 1883
Providing country
- Netherlands
Collection name
First time published on Europeana
- 2020-03-11T07:13:13.286Z
Last time updated from providing institution
- 2022-10-15T07:33:21.569Z