Photographs (left to right): Mendon Ponds Park, Mendon, New York

Wampum Belt Archive

 

Huron Grand Chief Wampum Belt

Courtesy Museum of Victoria, Melbourne, Australia

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none given

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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).

Reference:

Indiana University. 1988. The Spirit Sings: artistic traditions of Canada's first peoples: a catalogue of the exhibition. 156pp.