This belt was brought over by Mariam Gulezian in 1907 in to be given to her brother-in-law Samuel when he got married. However, Samuel had gone to jail for an attempted assassination and when he got out he married a non-Armenian, so the belt stayed in the family.
Thanks to Theona Jundanian for providing the image and to photographer Brenda Berry creating the image. , “Silver Dowry Belt,” Armenians of Whitinsville, accessed May 12, 2024, https://armeniansofwhitinsville.org/items/show/88.
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