shoulder belt plate, officer, shoulder belt plate
Accession Number

NAM.1984-09-67-1

Description

Officer's shoulder belt plate, 1810 (c). Possibly associated with Jamaica Militia. Oval gilt copper plate bearing the following incised design: within a plain circlet a garter bearing the motto, 'Indus Uterque Serviet Uni', within which a shield charged with a hatched cross bearing five pineapples. The shield is upon a hatched ground. On each side of the garter a representation of a person wearing a feather or left headdress and loin cloth of similar fabric. The figure to the left of the garter is holding a pineapple, the figure to the right wears a quiver of arrows and is leaning upon a bow. Below each figure, a sugar cane entwined with a scroll. Above the garter is an alligator upon an heraldic wreath (Arms, Supporters, Motto and Crest of Jamaica).