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

Wampum Belt Archive

France

R. D. Hamell October 31, 2024 (Safter Stolle, 1016)

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

MHNEL 990.2.3316

Original Size:	Rows: 7. Length: ?
Reproduction:	Beaded Length: 44.0 inches. Width: 3.5 inches. Length w/fringe: 68.0 inches.
Beads:	Columns: 217. Rows: 7. Beads: 1,519.
Materials:	Warp: Deer lLather. Weft: Artificial Sinew. Beads: Glass.

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. Plate 14. Figure 183. Hamburg, Germany.