Photographs (left to right): Black Racer, Paynes Prairie, Florida; Mohave Desert, Nevada; Monhonk, New York

Wampum Belt Archive

 

Delaware - Munsee

AMNH 50.1 1945 769

 

 

Original Size:
Reproduction:	Beaded Length: 24.0 inches. Width: 4.5 inches. Length w/fringe: 44.0 inches.
Beads:	Columns: 152. Rows: 9. Beads: 1,368.
Materials:	Warp: Deer Leather. Weft: Artificial Sinew. Beads: Polymer

Description:

18th Century belt. Albany, New York. Initial G.T. - Georgius Tertius. Belt given from the chief of the Haudenosaunee

Turtle Clan.

AMNH list the belt as Munsee-Delaware, Muncey Reserve, Ontario, Canada

Reference:

Beauchamp, 1901. Wampum and Shell Articles Used by the New York Indians. NYS Mus. Bull. 41.