This belt comprises three large pouches, one small pouch and two smaller cane tubes. They are decorated with red cloth, cowry shell buttons and whte leather geometric designs showing a man dancing and brandishing a gun.

The large pouches are subdivided into separate compartments for ‘cartouches’, each containing enough powder and a ball for one shot. The small pouch and the cane tubes other pouches would have been used to carry other accessories such as spare ammunition and wadding.

Such belts, originally designed to accompany flintlock, muzzle-loading muskets, were easily adapted to hold the metal cartridges used in later breechloading rifles.