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

Wampum Belt Archive

 

Hamell June 19, 2008

Original Size:

Rows: 10.

Reproduction:

Beaded length: 31 inches. Width: 5.0 inches. Length w/fringe: 55 inches.

Beads:

Rows: 10. Columns: 194. Total beads: 1,940.

Materials:

Warp: Deer Leather. Weft: Artificial Sinew. Beads: Polymer.

Description:

Eight pairs of double black shell diagonals on a white-field shell belt. NY. Meaning unknown. Stolle had a drawn image Plate 6, Fig. 67 and gave Tooker (1898) as his source. Tooker's report had no description of this belt. Hale had photograph this belt and others at the Six Nations Ohsweken, Ontario Canada.

Reference:

Hale, Horatio. 1871. Wampum Collection - Pitts River Museum, England. https://vitacollections.ca/sixnationsarchive/2687110/data

Stolle, Nickolaus. 2016. Talking Beads: Hamburg, Germany.

Tooker. E. 1988. A note on the Return of Eleven Wampum Belts to the Six Nations. Ethnohistory 45, 2, pp. 219-236.

 

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