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

Wampum Belt Archive

Haudenosaunee?

 

CMH III X 307

Canadian Museum of Civilization

belt

After Tooker.

Reproduction: R. D. Hamell

December 13 2021

 

Original Size:

Rows: 10. Length: 53 cm. 21.8 inches.

Reproduction:

Rows: 10. Columns: 171. Beaded Length: 27 inches. Width: 5 inches. Length w/fringe: 51 inches.

Beads:

Polymer: 1,710.

Materials:

Warp: Deer Leather. Weft: Artificial Sinew.

Description:

White shell belt with with 4 sets of 2 black shell diagonals. Purchased from D. C. Ewing in 1975.

Reference:

Tooker. E. 1998. A note on the Return of Eleven Wampum Belts to the Six Nations. Ethnohistory 45, 2, pp. 219-236.

 

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