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Wampum Belt Archive

Passamaquoddy

Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology, Harvard Univ., Cambridge, MA

 

PMAE HU 67-10-10/288

R. D. Hamell November 19, 2024

 

Original Size:	Rows: 11. Glass Beads.
Reproduction:	Beaded Length: 52.0 inches. Width: 3.2 inches. Length w/fringe: 72.0 inches.
Beads:	Columns: 329. Rows: 11. Beads: 3,116.
Materials:	Warp: Deer leather. Weft: Artificial sinew. Beads: Glass.

Description:

Black glass bead belt, identically in pattern to before, so two sets ver-tically mirrored to before, and in addition a central white, chequered glass bead diamond, and ends with six white, short glass bead bars, 11 rows, unknown dimensions, grey parts missing, shoulder strap of pouch, PMAE, HU Cat. No. 67-10-10/288, ex Harvard University, 1867, ex Massachusetts Historical Society, ex Freeman Coll., pre1792 (Feest 2007a: 52; Feest 2014b: 73f., Fig. 5)

Reference:

Stolle, Nickolaus. 2016. Talking Beads. Hamburg, Germany. Plate 24 Fiure 294.