Photographs (left to right): All Niobara County, Wyoming

Wampum Belt Archive

pre 1799

Tooker

 

Original Size:	Beads: shell. Length: unknown. Rows: 6.
Reproduction:	Beaded length: 25.6 inches. Width: 3.0 inches. Length w/ fringe: 50.0 inches.
Beads:	Columns: 161. Rows: 6. Beads: 966 beads.
Materials:	Warp: Deer leather. Weft: Artificial sinew. Beads: Polymer.

Description:

Alternating black squares. p. l. u. Seen by Beauchamp at Six Nations in 1899 (Tooker, 1998).

Reference:

Beauchamp, 1901. Wampum and Shell Articles Used by the New York Indians. NYS Mus. Bull. 41, pp. 321-480.

Tooker, Elizabeth. 1998. A Note on the Return of Eleven Wampum Belts to the Six Nations Iroquois Confederacy on Grand River, Canada. Ethnohistory 45(2): 219-236.