BELT BUCKLE

Sand Cast Solid Brass Turtle, with Antiqued Finish.  Hold belt width of up to 1 3/4".

The Turtle is considered to be the oldest, sacred symbol of the Anishinabe and Haudenosaunee people. They believed that North America was created on the back of a turtle. Father Sky's wife fell through a hole in the sky, and to keep her from drowning little Muskrat managed to bring up a handful of soil from the bottom of the ocean; she placed it on Turtle's wide back and the land immediately began to grow eventually forming North America. To this day most Indigenous peoples refer to North America as Turtle Island.