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Photographs (left to right): Mendon Ponds Park, Mendon, New York
Wampum Belt Archive
Huron Grand Chief Wampum Belt
Courtesy Museum of Victoria, Melbourne, Australia
Hamell Oct. 8, 2024
Original Size: |
Rows: 11. |
Reproduction: |
Beaded length: 46.5 inches. Width: 5.5 inches. Length w/fringe: 71.5 inches. |
Beads: |
Columns: 291. Rows: 11. Beads: 3,201. |
Materials: |
Warp: Artificial sinew. Weft: Artificial sinew. Beads: Polymer. |
Description:
Worn by the Grand Chief on state occasions.
One of eight wampum belts drawn by S.D.S. Huyghes at the Huron Council House at Lorette in 1848 (Courtesy of the Museum of Victoria, Melbourne, Australia).
Stolle (p. 331):
Black shell bead belt fragment, once composed of four white, outlined diamonds with filled black shell bead crosses, framed in white, outlined cross designs, alternating with hourglass shaped white spaces, with black rectangles and white, vertically arranged end bars, 11 rows, dimensions not
available, grey parts missing since 1895, Private Coll., worn by Philippe Vincent Theanwathasta, grand Chief of the Huron-Wendat in 1897-97, drawn by Samuel Douglas Smith Huyghue in 1846 as part of the Huron-Wendat archive at Lorette, present Wendake (Lyford 1989: 109; Lainey 2004: 109f., 154f.)
Reconstructed beaded design based on the drawings of Huughes and Stolle.
Reference:
Museum of Victoria, Melbourne, Australia
Stolle, Nickolaus. 2016. Talking Beads. Plate 14, Fig. 186. Hamburg, Germany.
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