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

Wampum Belt Archive

France

Musee des Beaux-Arts et d'Archeologie, Besancon, France

MBAA 853.50.75

Original Size:

6 rows Length: 94 cm. 37 inches.

Reproduction:

 

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Description:

Black shell wampum with 10 white diagonals double shell bead lines and both ends white.

Ex Museum d'Historie Naturelle de Besancon before 1853.

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