Photographs (left to right): Alligator, Bracket Fungus, Alligator, Florida

Wampum Belt Archive

 

France 71.1878.32.142

 
Original Size:
Rows: 9 rows. Length: 114

Reproduction:

Beads:

glass

Materials:

 

 

Description:

Green glass bead belt with eight yellow, diagonally arranged, stepped, outlined black glass squares and alternating yellow and black end lines. Thought to have been a strap to a pouch but isn't according to Anne de Stechert. (Stolle, Nickolaus, personal communications, June 2012).

Reference:

Stolle, Nickolaus. 2016. Talking Beads: The history of wampum as a value and knowledge bearer, from its very first beginnings until today. Hamburg, Germany. ISSN 1437-7837