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Belt with conchas

Unknown, 1959

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Unknown

Belt with conchas

Unknown, 1959

Physical Qualities Leather, silver, copper/brass?, 38 × 2 1/16 in. (96.5 × 5.2 cm.)
Credit Line Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Amos G. Horney, Cockeysville, Maryland
Object Number 1991.235
Black leather belt with raw edges. Ten sandcast silver conchas secured to belt with two copper-colored bands each. Eleventh concha modified to be belt buckle. Conchas are roughly oval in shape with diamond-shape nested inside. Contact points between oval and diamond marked by silver ball.

Inscribed: none

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