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:

Length: 49.0 inches. Rows: 7. Glass Beads.

Reproduction:

Bead Length: 34.0 inches. Width: 3.5 inches. Length w/fringe: 58.0 inches.

Beads:

Columns: 215. Rows: 7. Beads: 1,505.

Materials:

Warp: Deer Leather. Weft: Artificial sinew. Beads: Glass.

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. Hamburg, Germany. ISSN 1437-7837