Photographs (left to right): All Niobara County, Wyoming

Wampum Belt Archive

MYB 00.01.10

Nordamerika Native Museum, Zurich, Switzerland

Original Size:

Rows: 9. Length: 32.0 inches.

Reproduction:

Beaded Length: 33.0 inches. Width: 2.5 inches. 54.0 inches with fringe.

Beads:

Rows: 9. Columns: 205. Beads: 1,845.

Materials:

Warp: Deer Leather. Weft. Artificial Sinew. Beads: Glass.

 

Description:

Translucent blue glass bead band with white glass bead edging, neck strap of knife sheath, 9 rows, L: 82 cm, NONAM Cat. No. 0000-NA-00009, ex Gottfried Hotz Coll., Cat. No. 9. 1,3, (Schulamt der Stadt Zürich (ed.) 1975: 43, 154, Fig. 16), purchased from Charles Ratton, Paris before 1938.

Stolle: Plate 2 Figure 25.

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