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Wampum Belt Archive

 

Fleming NY Belt

Cayuga?

BM AN1065574001

Original Size:	Length: 35.4 inches. Width: 7.9 inches. Beaded length: 250 rows by 15 wide.
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Description:

Belt of wampum shell beads, recovered from a grave and re-strung, white and purple in co lour, with no indication whether the configuration is the original one. The belt is 16 warps wide, with 15 rows of beads, by 250 long, to make a theoretical total of 3750 beads, but there are probably between 15-50 missing.
The twine seems to be cotton. Date: ca 1630.

The original registration slip reads: 'No 6. Belt of imported wampum from a grave in Fleming, New York. The manufactured or wampum of commerce, probably of about 1630, brought into this region by way of Montreal.' 'North America, Ancient. Belt formed of fifteen rows of lilac and white cylinders of shell.'
Additional description etc by JCK 24/10/95.

Cayuga County, Fleming, NY, Acquired by the British Museum 1889. For more details see - http://www.britishmuseum.org/research/search_the_collection_database/search_object_details.aspx

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