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hair belt en · NOUN
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A cord or band made of twisted human hair, traditionally worn by Australian Aboriginals around the waist or arm used for carrying small tools or ritual items and for marking ceremonial or social identity.
He carried a wommera and two excellently made shovel-bladed spears; a stone knife was shoved through his human hair belt.
1937, Ion L. Idriess, Over the Range, Sydney: Angus and Robertson, published 1947, page 77:
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