Belt Tassels from Uzbekistan

• country - Uzbekistan
• materials - silver and coral
• object - belt tassels
• object date - first half of the 20th Century
• source - Ann Porteus, Sidewalk Tribal Gallery, Hobart, Tasmania

These long silver and coral tassels were traditionally most often used in Uzbekistan as belt ends. They could be attached to quite elaborate and complicated belts or form a belt with a very simple structure, as in this case, where the belt is in effect a chain.