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

Wampum Belt Archive

 

abelt

 

belt

R.D.Hamell

MCM M1911

Canada

ca. Haudenosaunee

Original Size:
Rows: 7. Length: 102.5 cm (40.3 inches).
Reproduction:

Beaded Length: 42.0 inches. Width: 3.5 inches. Length w/fringe: 60.0 inches.

Beads:

Rows: 7. Columns: 264 . Beads: 1,848.

Materials:

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

Description:

Black shell belt with three white diagonal doubled shell bead lines. Edges wrapped. Gift of David Ross McCord. Unknown History.

References:

McCord Museum. 2012. http://www.mccord-museum.qc.ca/en/
Stolle, Nickolaus. 2016. Talking Beads. Hamburg, Germany.