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Large Fully Beaded Belt Buckle with Two Fancy Dancers

$ 92.4

Availability: 100 in stock
  • Provenance: Ownership History Available
  • Condition: Used
  • All returns accepted: ReturnsNotAccepted
  • Handmade: Yes
  • Tribal Affiliation: Wichita

    Description

    Large Fully Beaded Belt Buckle with Two Fancy Dancers. Having two animated figures wearing their colorful regalia, facing each other, and blowing tube whistles. The dancer on the right hold an eagle feather fan in his hand and has a similar fan in his right hand. Between the men, above, is a step sided diamond outlined in white beads with dark red, orange, yellow, and pale green inside. Below are a pair of step sided triangles, pointing downward, and outlined with white beads. The top one is dark red, cherry red, orange, and yellow inside and the bottom one is filled with dark blue, medium blue, and turquoise. The background color is medium blue outlined by two rows of beads. Each has a pattern consisting of short segments of red, orange, yellow, white, and a longer length of dark blue. The buckle edge has narrow bands of the same colors, except the broader blue bands match the background color. Crafted by The Swift Family. Wichita Tribe; Southern Plains region. 1997. Oklahoma. Provence Available. 6 3/4" x 5 1/2".