Photographs (left to right): Sunset, Albuquerque, New Mexico; Silver Pennies, Rush, New York; Tent Rocks National Monument, New Mexico
After Tooker fig. 71
R. D. Hamell December 14 2021
Original Size:
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Rows: 8. Length: ? |
Reproduction:
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Beaded Length: 28.0 inches. Width: 4.0 inches. Length w/fringe: 51.0 inches |
Beads:
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Columns: 176. Rows: 8. Beads: 1,408. |
Materials:
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Warp: Deer Leather. Weft: Artificial Sinew. |
Description:
A wampum belt seen at the Council at Ohwseken, Canada in 1899. It is a white-fielded belt with five sets of three black diagonal; two are one bead wide and the third diagonal is make of three beads (Beauchamp, 1901: Fig. 177) No meaning given.
Reference:
Beauchamp, 1901. Wampum and Shell Articles Used by the New York Indians. NYS Mus. Bull. 41, pp. 321-480.
Tooker. E. 1998. A note on the Return of Eleven Wampum Belts to the Six Nations. Ethnohistory 45, 2, pp. 219-236.
