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Pair of leg ornaments/dance bells. Leather straps with 5 squared-bells mounted on each strap; the bells have duct tape on the reverse of the leather to help hold them in place. black shoelaces used as closures. Each bell has a different clapper (e.g. nuts or coiled wire, etc.). Part of an ensemble of powwow regalia.

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