This belt fragment was designed with tubular beads forming geometric patterns such as Xs, diamonds, and triple dashes within a loop-in-loop mesh. It would have been part of an ensemble of personal adornments of a nobleman from 10th-13th-century Philippines. This belt band was originally connected to one of the buckles in this collection and is part of the so-called “Surigao Treasure” recovered in Surigao del Sur province in Mindanao.

Most belts that were irregularly excavated were cut and divided up among looters. Only a few complete belts survive.