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

Wampum Belt Archive

 

Canada National Currency Museum

ca Haudenosaunee Date?

NCM 1965 136 5538

Original Size:	Rows: 4.
Reproduction:	Beaded Length: 78.0 inches. Width: 5.0 inches. Total length w/fringe: 102.0 inches.
Beads:	Columns: 490. Rows: 4. Total beads: 1,960.
Materials:	Warp: Deer leather. Weft: Artificial sinew. Beads: Polymer.

Description:

Black shell belt with seven white diagonal doubled shell bead lines with two short white bars at both ends.

Canadian National Currency Museum.NCM 1965 136 5538.

Transferred from the Public Archives of Canada in 1965.

Bead length (columns) determined by the column width of short white stripes of 8 beads proportional length of belt strap illustrated (Stolle, 2016).

 

 

Reference:

Stolle, Nickolaus. 2016. Talking Beads. Hamburg, Germany. ISSN 1437-7837