Photographs (left to right): Mendon Ponds Park, Mendon, New York; Seneca Rocks, West Virginia; Mendon Ponds Park, Mendon, New York

Wampum Belt Archive

 

Huron Open Pathway Belt

Courtesy Museum of Victoria, Melbourne, Australia

belt

 

Original Size:

none given

Reproduction:

Beaded Length: 22.4. Width: 3.5 inches. Length w/fringe: 46.4.

Beads:

Columns: 141. Rows: 7. Beads: 987.

Materials:

Warp: Deer Leather. Weft: Artificial Sinew. Beads: Polymer.

Description:

The Huron wampum belt "open pathway" used to inaugurate a grand chief.