Diviner's Belt

Diviner's Belt

BauleWW-1900-142704
1900·Leather, fur, gourd, shell, and wood·24.2 × 90.2 × 12.7 cm (9 1/2 × 35 1/2 × 5 in.)

<p>This belt may have belonged to a diviner whose skills derived from a close relationship with a wilderness spirit. Special training allows diviners to work in concert with such spirits to reveal the sources of human illness and trouble. Wilderness spirits often ask the people they possess to have unique objects like this elaborate belt, or weapons [see 1999.380], made for them, to be displayed during a diviner’s public trance performances.</p>

Catalogue

Year
1900
Dimensions
24.2 × 90.2 × 12.7 cm (9 1/2 × 35 1/2 × 5 in.)
Artist
Baule

Artist

Baule
Baule

Baule is an artist whose practice and medium remain to be documented.

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Record

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Artist
Baule
Year
1900
Dimensions
24.2 × 90.2 × 12.7 cm (9 1/2 × 35 1/2 × 5 in.)
Watts ID
WW-1900-142704

Source

Source
aic
Status
verified