Photographs (left to right): Sunset, Albuquerque, New Mexico; Silver Pennies, Rush, New York; Tent Rocks National Monument, New Mexico

Wampum Belt Archive

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Hamell (2024)

Huron (ca) MCQ 1992-1290

Musee de la Civilisation, Quebec, Canada

Original Size:

5 rows Length 52.2cm. 20.5 inches. Wrapped edges.

Reproduction:

Beaded Length: 22.5 inches. Width: 2.5 inches. Length w/fringe: 42.5 inches.

Beads:

Columns: 133. Rows: 5. total Beads: 695.

Materials:

Warp: leather. Weave: artificial sinew. Beds: Polymer.

 

Description:

Black shell belt with a single white outlined shell bead square. Three horizontally arranged with lines on left end. Wrapped edges (Stolle, 2016).

Reference:

Lainey, Joathan. 2004. La “Monnaie des Sauvages”. Les colliers de wampum d’hier à aujourd’hui. Sillery, Quebec: Septentrion.

Stolle, Nickolaus. 2016. Talking Beads. Hamburg, Germany. ISSN 1437-7837