Made of a hemp or vegetable fibre warp and weft and blue, white, translucent gold and yellow barley pony beads. Decorated with metal cones attached to some of the 11 tassels found at each end. The fringe is made of quill-wrapped strings done with what are now light blue, orange and yellow quills, and beads strung in a repeating pattern of two white and two dark blue. Each fringe element ends with a metal cone containing blue dyed animal hair.

Loom woven.

Various geometric motifs.

Design and motifs are unique - this belt intrigued the GRASAC research team.

British Museum object catalogue.

Collected by John T. and purchased by the British Museum from the Royal Institution of Cornwall through the Truro County Museum in 1986.

Unknown artist, message belt Currently in the British Museum, Am1986,18.22. Item photographed and described as part of a GRASAC research trip December 2007; GRASAC item id 24393.

This record was created as part of a Great Lakes Research Alliance for the Study of Aboriginal Arts and Cultures (GRASAC) research trip to the Pitt Rivers Museum and British Museum, December 8-22 2007, funded by a grant from the International Opportunities fund of the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC).

Researchers present: Heidi Bohaker (HB), John Borrows (JB), Lindsay Borrows (LB), Alan Corbiere (AC), Henrietta Lidchi (HL), Stacey Loyer (SL), Janis Monture (JM), Bruce Morito (BM), Ruth Phillips (RP), Anne De Stecher (AS), Cory Willmott (CW).