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Loan Object
Explore image in Maker: Navajo
Leather belt with conchas
ca. 1890
Silver and leather
3 × 46 in. (7.6 × 116.8 cm)
Lent by Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History, ANT.030847
ILE2012.13.6
Geography:
Made in Arizona
or made in New Mexico
Status:
On view
Culture:
Native American
Period:
19th century
Classification:
Apparel/Costume
Provenance:
The William P. Sargent Indian Collection, Peabody Museum of Natural History, Yale University.
Bibliography:
Barbara M. Ward and Gerald W. R. Ward, eds., Silver in American Life: Selections from the Mabel Brady Garvan and Other Collections at Yale University, exh. cat. (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Art Gallery, 1979), 116, no. 112.
Note: This electronic record was created from historic documentation that does not necessarily reflect the Yale University Art Gallery’s complete or current knowledge about the object. Review and updating of such records is ongoing.
