Photographs (left to right): Red-tailed Hawk, Rush, New York; Medusa Jellyfish, Chattanooga Aquarium, Tennessee; Apple Blossoms, Cornell Univ., New York

Wampum Belt Archive

Stolle (2016)

NMAI Cat u

belt

Hamell (October 30, 2024)

Original Size:

Rows: 14. Length not given.

Reproduction:

Length: 46.0 inches. Width: 7.0 inches. Length w/fringe: 70.0 inches.

Beads:

Columns: 290. Rows: 14. Total Beads: 4,060 beads.

Materials:

Warp: Deer leather. Weft: Artificial sinew. Beads: Polymer.

Description:

White belt with two black human figures at each end, connected by two black rows, 14 rows, dimensions not available, grey parts missing, p. l. u., photography by De Lancey W. Gill (1890s), Smithsonian Institution Cat. No. u (Stolle, 2016).

Reference:

Stolle, Nickolaus. 2016. Talking Beads. Plate 29. Figure 343. Hamburg, Germany.