
Diviner's Belt
<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.)
- Collection
- Art Institute of Chicago
- Artist
- Baule
Artist

Baule is an artist whose practice and medium remain to be documented.
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Record
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- Collection
- Art Institute of Chicago
- Source
- aic
- Reference
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- Status
- verified





