Photographs (left to right): Little Dismal Swamp; North Carolina; Youghiogheny River, Pennsylvania; Japanese Beetle, Rush, New York

Wampum Belt Archive

 

Georgian Bay 1 Belt

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Original Size:	unknown
Reproduction:	Beaded Length: 53.0 inches. Width: 3.5 inches. Length w/fringe: 77.0 inches.
Beads:	Columns: 334. Rows: 7. Beads: 2,338.
Materials:	Warp: Deer leather. Weft: Artificial sinew. Beads: Polymer.

Description:

Reproduction belt based on Goodwin’s drawing in Beauchamp (1901).

Black shell bead belt with five white, diagonal shell bead lines.
Goodwin collected from Georgian Bay 1895. Repatriated to the Haudenosaunee Council in 1996/97.

Reference:

Beauchamp. 1901. Wampum and Shell Articles. University of the State of New York, Albany.