Photographs (left to right): All Tioga, Pennsylvania

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:
Rows: 86 and 82.
Beads:
Glass
Materials:
 

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)

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

 

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