Posted by BR on June 19, 1999 at 20:14:22:
In Reply to: Re: Several stupid questions....... and equally stupid answers! posted by Rich on June 19, 1999 at 19:01:19:
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: >I'm not an expert on that, but I believe it was 1- decorative and 2- "a record of the days of my father's people" ... or something like that!
Thanks Rich. So I take it, as its name implies, it was merely a sash? Did not perform a function such as a strap for anything?
Guess that makes sense now that I think about it. The rifle strap looks to be leather.....and I guess he would not have taken off his haversack or powder horn or whatever to carry it into that village claiming it was a record of his people.
Ah well, nothing keeps me from using it in one of those ways I suppose.......