- Object Name
- Maker
- Title
Hunting belt with accessories
- Date
Circa 1863
- Materials
Brown leather, lined, stitched, with adjustment holes, brass buckle; metal tools and ornaments
- Dimensions
41 1/2 in x 14 1/2 in x 1 3/4 in (105.5 cm x 37 cm x 4.5 cm)
- Credit Line
Donated by Petra and Greg Martin to the Autry Museum
- Object ID
96.147.2
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- Institution
Autry Museum of the American West
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- Category
Art and Artifacts
- Remarks
Belt with accessories, leather, lined and stitched with brass snake buckle, circa 1863. Accessories attached to belt: knife with scabbord, hand ax with scabbord, accessory pouch with silver plaque on exterior flap, and pewter dog wishle. Inscribed on plaque: J. Nosworthy / BELLEVILLE / 1863.
Firearms were of utmost importance, but mountain men and hunters on the American frontier relied on a variety of tools to survive. J. Nosworthy, a hunter for the hotels of the Great Northern Railroad in the Wyoming Territory in the 1860s, used this unique hunting set for more than twenty years. The tanned leather belt includes a scabbard, made of leather and German silver, containing a Bowie knife; another scabbard containing an axe; a pewter dog whistle; and an accessory pouch with an inscribed German silver plaque. Nosworthy supplemented the set with several firearms, including a Plains Rifle made by Philadelphia gunsmith William Robinson.
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