Photographs (left to right): Mt. Charleston, Nevada; St. Thomas, Pennsylvania; Okefenokee National Wildlife Refuge, Florida

Wampum Belt Archive

British Covenant Chain

1760's

Original Size:

Length: 26.6 inches, Rows: 11.

Reproduction:

Beaded Length: 28.0. Widdth: 5.5 inches. Length w/fringe: 52.0 inches.

Beads:

Rows: 11. Columns: 187. Beads: 1,958.

Materials:

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

Description:

White shell bead belt with seven black, double outlined, open, linked shell bead hexagons, 11 rows,

REMM Cat. No. V-Am-1807, purchased from Hugo Schilling in 1882, see Figure 11, p. 202.

Reference:

Stolle, Nickolaus. 2016. Talking Beads. Hamburg, Germany.Fig. 11, p. 202.