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

Wampum Belt Archive

France

Musee d’Histoire Naturelle de d’Ethnographie Lille, Lille, France

MHNEL 990.2.3316

Original Size:	Rows: 7. Length: ?
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Description:

Translucent red wine color glass beads with central whittle checkered diamond flanked by three white horizontally arranged checkered diamonds. Shoulder strap of bag.

Object entered the institution in 1991, ex Palais des Beaux Arts, 1876, probably ex Alphonse Molliet Collection, pre 1851.

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