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

Wampum Belt Archive

pre1792

France

MBQ.71.1878.3257

Original Size:

Rows: 8. Length: 91 cm. 35.8 inches

Reproduction:

Beaded Length: 30.0 inches. Width: 40 inches. Length w/fringe: 50.0 inches.

Beads:

Columns: 165. Rows: 8. Beads: 1,320.

Materials:

Warp: Deer leather. Weft: Artificial sinew. Beads: Polymer.

Description:

White shell bead belt with black shell beads.

Ex musee de l'Homme, ex musee de ehnographique du Trocadero, 1878, ex Bibliotheque nationale at Paris, pre 1792/5.

Reference:

https://www.mbaa.besancon.fr/