Woven leather waist belt with loop and wrapped leather button as fastener. The object is part of the collection that was donated to the Gewerbemuseum Ulm in March 1910 by First Lieutenant Picht. The donor was Erhard Picht (1882 - 1910), who served with the "König Karl" (1st Württemberg) Field Artillery Regiment, No. 13 in Ulm/Ludwigsburg from 1900 and as director of the West African Planting Company "Victoria" in Cameroon from 1904. In 1908, Erhard Picht had a collection of African artefacts transported to Berlin, where he lived for a time. These presumably included objects that went to Ulm in 1910. He sold part of the collection to the Museum für Völkerkunde in Berlin in 1908. Erhard Picht died of malaria in Berlin in April 1910, shortly after the donation to the Gewerbemuseum Ulm. It is possible that Erhard Picht's brother Heinrich was involved in the realisation of the donation or was also partly involved in the collection of the African objects. Heinrich Picht (born 18 May 1884) was employed as a planter in Cameroon from 1902 and founded Deutsche Kautschuk-AG (Ekona AG from 1923) in Berlin in 1907. Around 1903, he was commissioned to negotiate with tribal chiefs to recruit local labourers for the plantations. To this end, he travelled through north-western Cameroon and what is now the province of Nord-Ouest. Some of the objects from the donation originate from the area in which he was travelling. Heinrich Picht also had connections to Ulm, where he gave a lecture on his travels in Cameroon in October 1906.