Photographs (left to right): Custer State Park, South Dakota; Mohave Desert, California; Custer State Park, South Dakota

Wampum Belts No Known Provenience Archive

 

Unknown Belt 8535074_3

18th Century

Eastern Woodland

McCord M1909

Huron?

Original Size:	7cmx57.5 w/fringees 84.3
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Description:

Black quahog shell and Knobbed whelk (Busycon carica) beaded belt. Four outlined white shell hexagons with a white crosse in the center of each. One end has 5 bars of 5 white wampum. The other end may have been longer. Note the white wampum are various lengths.

MCM Cat. No. M1909, gift of David Ross McCord

Reference:

McCord Museum. 2012. http://www.mccord-museum.qc.ca/en/. https://collections.musee-mccord-stewart.ca/en/objects/6893/no-title