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Belt buckle, artisanal, with radiant sun-face (mask) appliqué

Object/Artifact

Rectangular belt buckle with slightly bowed face, made from a polished white-metal plate. The front bears a cast relief of a frontal, stern-faced mask — furrowed brow, broad nose, open mouth with teeth, and a beaded band across the forehead — set within a many-pointed radiating sunburst. The reverse has a hand-soldered belt-loop bar at one end and a bent-wire hoo

2025.11.17

Made by artisans with repurposed belt buckles, in the 1980s. Sold in stores as per people's testimony.

2025.11

Purchase

Steel

Materials: White-metal plate (chrome-plated steel or polished nickel/stainless — unconfirmed); cast white-metal appliqué (pewter/lead-tin alloy or aluminum — unconfirmed); solder; rivets. Technique: Artisanal/handmade — dapped sheet-metal plate; separately cast figural appliqué riveted/soldered on; hand-soldered loop and hook.

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