Photographs (left to right): All Coso Range, California

Wampum Belts

Haudenosaunee

 

NMAI 14006

Original Size:	Length: 42.9 inches. Width: 1.6 inches.
Reproduction:	Beaded Length: 56.0 inches. Width: 4.0 inches. Length w/fringe: 80.0 inches.
Beads:	Columns: 357. Rows: 8. Beads: 2,856.
Materials:	Warp: Deer leather. Weft: Artificial sinew. Beads: Polymer.

Description:

Black shell bead belt with six white, diagonal, double, outlined shell bead lines, each three pointing to center, and two short bars at both ends, 8 rows, unknown dimensions, grey parts missing, Six Nations, ex NMAI Cat. No. 08/4474, ex Joseph Keppler Coll., repatriated to the Haudenosaunee Council in 1997

 

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