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Wampum Belt Archive

 

EMB IV-B-7606

Ethnologisches Museum Berlin Germany

 

R.D. Hamell Nov. 17 2021

Original Size:	4 rows. Length: 6cm. 2.4 inches.
Reproduction:	Bead Length: 2.5 inches. Width: 2.0 inches. Length w/fringe: 5.0 inches.
Beads:	Columns: 15. Rows: 4. Beads: 60.
Materials:	Warp: Deer Leather. Weft: Artificial sinew. Beads: Shell.

Description:

Black shell beaded belt single white bead zigzag. part of finger-woven ornament. Exchanged with Walter C. Wyman in 1908.

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