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

Wampum Belt Archive

 

 

Reproduction R. D. Hamell

December 13 2021

Original Size:	Rows: 10. Length: 58 cm. 22.8 inches
Reproduction:	Rows: 10. Columns: 171. Beaded Length:27 inches. Width: 5 inches. T.Length w/fringe: 51.0 inches. Based in Stolle's belt scale.
Beads:	Polymer: 1,710 beads.
Materials:	Warp: Deer Leather. Weft: Artificial Sinew.

Description:

White shell belt with with 4 sets of 2 black shell diagonals. Purchased from Huo Schilling in 1886.

Reference:

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