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Wampum Belt Archive

 

Huron Belt

Ave Maria Gratia Plena

Hail Mary, Full of Grace

belt

Hamy 1897

Original Size:

 

Reproduction:

Beaded length: 50.0 inches. Width: 10.0 inches. Length w/ fringe: 74.0 inches.

Beads:

Rows: 20. Columns: 315. Total beads: 6,300

Materials:

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

Description:

Chaumonet to Jesuit Chapel Paris.

Ave Maria Gratia Plena: “Hail Mary, Full of Grace, the Lord is  with you.” It is a passage from the New Testament.

This belt was given to the church of Notre-Dame de Foy, Dinant, Belgium (Feest, 1992).

 

Note:

The length and width of the reconstructed belt was based on other Huron-Abenaki ecclesiastic belts.

 

Reference:

Bonanni, Philippus. 1709. Mussaeum Kircherianum sive Musaeum a P. Athanasio Kirchero incoep-tum… Roma: Georgius Plachus.

Becker, Marshall J. and Jonathan Lainey 2004 Wampum Belts with Initials and/or Dates as Design Elements: A Preliminary Review of One Subcategory of Political Belts. American Indian Culture and Research Journal 28(2): 25-45. Beckett,

Feest, Christian. 1992 North America in the European Wunderkammer Before 1750. With a Preliminary Checklist. Archiv für Völkerkunde 46: 61-109.

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