Photographs (left to right): All Mohave Desert, California/Nevada

Wampum Belt Archive

 

Huron Belt

Blessed is she who believed

 

R.D.Hamell Sept. 30, 2024

Original Size:	unknown
Reproduction:	Beaded Length: 44.0 inches. Width: 10.0 inches. T/length w/fringe: 68.0 inches.
Beads:	Rows: 20. Columns: 277. Beads: Polymer: 5.540.
Materials:	Warp: Deer leather. Weft: Artificial Sinew.

Description:

Beata Qvae Credidisti translated "Blessed is she who believed." This is a a quotation from Elizabeth, who said, "Mary, blessed are yoy who believed what God revealed to you would be fulfilled" This phrase is found in King James Version of the Bible in Luke 1:45-47" (Google translation, 2024).

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

 

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

Sturtevant, William C. 1985. Iroquois Pictorgraphy. Ann. Conf. on Iroquois Research.