Photographs (left to right): Ohiopyle Falls, Pennsylvania; Hamlin State Park, New York; Cucumber Falls, Pennsylvania

Wampum Belt Archive

 

Condarae Wampum Collar

Courtesy Ontario County Historical Society

17th Century Collar

Reproduction Devember 06 2024 R. D. Hamell

 

Original Size:	Beaded Length: 95.3 cm. 37.5 inches. ( est. 156 beads)
Reproduction:	Beaded Length: 30.5 inches. Width 3.0 inches. Length w/fringe: 54.5 inches.
Beads:	Columns: 156. Rows: 37. Beads: 6,772 (estimated)
Materials:	Warp: leather. Weft: artificial sinew. Beads: Polymer.

Description:

Stolle (2016) described this 17th century collar as constructed with shell wampum and on the fringe - glass tubular beads: blue, red and black. Might also include long and short purple wampum beads.

The collar was found on a Seneca site near Holcomb, NY called Condarae (the Seneca Village of Gandougarae in in the township of East Bloomfield). Could the later be the location?

Location. 42° 53.714′ N, 77° 26.076′ W. Marker is in East Bloomfield, New York, in Ontario County. Marker is at the intersection of State Street (U.S. 20) and South Avenue, on the right when traveling west on State Street. Located in southwest corner of Elton Park, near Highway 20, just west of the arch.

Village of Ganaugarae. Later the Jesuit mission of St. Michael was situated near this spot in the township of East Bloomfield.
Mass was said here by Fr. Fremen November 3, 1669 and was visited by La Salle in 1669.
The village was also attacked and burnt by Denonville after the Battle at Gandagaro (Boughton Hill) July 1687 .

 

References:

Hamell, George R. 2010. Personal Communications.

Ontario Historical Society. 2023. Personal communications.

Stolle, N. 2016. Talking Beads. Verlag Kovac Publ., 440pp.