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

Wampum Belt Archive

Huron?

Museumk der Weltkulturen Frankfurt, Frankfurt am Main, Germany

MWF N.S. 47389

Stolle not to scale

Hamell October 14, 2024

 

Original Size:	5 rows. Length 100.4 cm. 40 inches.
Reproduction:	Beaded length: 40.0. Width: 2.5. Length w/fringe 640.0 inches
Beads:	Columns 252 by 5 wide. Total beads: 1,260
Materials:	Warp: deer leather. Weft: artificial sinew. Beads: Polymer.

Description:

Stolle stated his belt image was not to scale. The ‘restored’ full length of 40 inches suggested the number of columns would be about 270. Hence replicated drawing is based this estimation and may not be a true design distribution.

White shell belt with four flank outlined shell bead squares and four central black diagonal double lines, and at both ends three horizontally arranged short black lines.

Purchased from Arthur Speyer, Jr. in 1969. Acquired via Earnest Ohley between 1962 and 1967. ex H. G. Beasley Collection pre1937.

Reference:

Stolle, Nickolaus. 2016. Talking Beads. Hamburg, Germany. ISSN 1437-7837