Photographs (left to right): Guernsey, Wyoming; Okefenokee National Wildlife Refuge, Florida; Mohave, California

Wampum Belts No Known Provenience Archive

 

Unknown Belt 8535075_3

10 pairs diagonals

Haudenosaunee?

 

belt

 

belt

Reconstruction drawing: R. D. Hamell June 7 2022

Original Size:

Rows: 6, Columns: 412?

Reproduction:

Beaded length: est. 65 inches x 3 inches . Length w/fringe: 89 inches.

Beads:

Polymer. 2,412 beads.

Materials:

Warp: Deer leather. Weft: Artifical sinew, Beads: Polymer.

Description:

Black shell bead belt with 10 white, diagonal, double shell bead lines and both ends white, 6 rows, L: 94 cm, MBAA Cat. No. 853.50.75, ex Muséum d’Histoire Naturelle de Besanҫon before 1853 (in Stolle, 2016. cf.: Lagrange and Dubois 1992: 110; cf.: Notter (ed.) 2013: 81).

Musée des Beaux-Arts et d’Archéologie, Besançon, France

 

Reference:

McCord Museum. 2012. http://www.mccord-museum.qc.ca/en/. https://collections.musee-mccord-stewart.ca/en/objects/6893/no-title

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