GUEST: My father became very good friends with an elderly neighbor lady. She had a brother who was a missionary in Alaska who sent her the belt. And when she passed away, it went to my father, and now it came on to me.
APPRAISER: I know this to be a caribou teeth belt. After the hunter made his kill, he takes the front portion of the incisors off, and it's a great source of pride as a hunter to make one of these, but they're worn by women. This belt represents the Iñupiat, which are Alaska group, and they're up along the northern Bering Straits. How many sets of teeth are on here?
GUEST: My father has told me that there are 140 sets of teeth on it.
APPRAISER: Most of them you see are 50 to 60. Oh, wow. I think this particular piece is from the late 1800s. It would sell at auction for probably $2,000 to $3,000.
GUEST: Oh, wow.
