Photographs (left to right): Sunset, Albuquerque, New Mexico; Silver Pennies, Rush, New York; Tent Rocks National Monument, New Mexico

Wampum Belt Archive

 

not to scale

Germany Belt

EMB I-B-12836

Ethnologisches Museum Berlin, Germany

 

Original Size:

7 rows Length: 124.5 cm. 49 inches.

Reproduction:

 

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Description:

White shell belt with three black outlined diamonds connected by a black row, a single black bead inside of the end diamond. Glass beads. Acquired via Earnest Ohley between 1962 and 1967, ex H. G. Beasley Collection.

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