Leather harness with sleigh bells from the Rock Rest Tourist Home

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This description refers to material held by Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture. Visual details below describe the original material.

A leather harness with twenty-four (24) sleigh bells. The harness is a wide, brown, leather strap that tapers at both ends. There are two metal buckles at either end of the strap. The bells are brass and trumpet shaped with ball tipped clappers. The bells are attached to the strap with embedded metal hooks and are separated from the leather with red plastic cutouts at the base of each hook. The back of the strap is plain, cracked leather.

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