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Wampum Belt Archive

Anishinaabe

BLM Ethno Am 6992

British Museum London, London, England

Drawing: R. D. Hamell

December 15 2021

Original Size:	Rows: 3. Length: 21.5 cm; 8.5 inches
Reproduction:	Beaded Lenght: 11.0 inches. Width: 1.25 inches, Length w/fringe: 23.0 inches
Beads:	Rows: 5. Columns: 49. Beads: 245.
Materials:	Warp: Deer Hide. Weft: Artificial Sinew. Beads: Glass.

Description:

Translucent blue glass bead bands with interwoven white, open glass bead crosses, 3 rows, L: 21.5 cm and 20.7 cm, edges wrapped, neck strap of pectoral, BML Cat. No. Ethno Am+6992, presented to the Christy Coll. by Sir A. W. Franks in 1893, acquired from Pickering Coll. (cf.: King 1982: 54) . Plate 21 Figure 263.

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.