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Wampum Belt Archive

National Currency Museum, Ottawa, Canada

NCM 1965 137 1

Rows: 7. Length 97.5 cm (38.4 inches).
Length: 50.0 inches. Width: 3.5 inches. Total length w/fringe: 74.0 inches.
Columns: 317. Rows: 7. Total beads: 2,219 beads.
Warp: Deer leather. Weft: Artificial sinew. Beads: Polymer.

Description
Black shell bead belt with eight white double outlined diamonds. Wrapped edges. Transferred from the Public Archives of Canada in 1965 (National Currency Bank.

Length of belt estimated on the spatial distribution of the diamond design and their width being nine beads.

Reference:
National Currency Museum, Ottawa, Canada NCM 1965 137 1

Stolle, Nickolaus. 2016. Talking Beads. Hamburg, Germany.