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Wampum Belt Archive

 

Huron 1678 Belt

Museum de l'Homme, Paris

Top Drawing after Hamy 1897

R.D. Hamell Sept. 22. 2024

 

Original Size:	Rows: 9. Length: 1.445 meters. 56.9 inches.
Reproduction:	Beaded Length: 58.0 nches. Width: 4.5 inches. Length w/fringe: 82.0 inches,
Beads:	Columns: 366. Rows: 9. wide. Beads: 3,294.
Materials:	Warp: Deer leather. Weft: Artificial Sinew. Beads: Polymer.

Description:

This ecclesiastical belt was sent by the Huron-Wendat mission of Jeune Lorette, present Wendake, to the cathedral of Nortre-Dame, Charles in 1678.

"Vow of the Huron to the Virigin who is to give birth"

The beads are wampum and mixed small glass beads and warps are wrapped with porcupine quills. The reproduction used polymer beads of the same size therefore the lettering .

 

Musee de quai Branly, Paris, France MBQ 71.1878.32.156. Ex musee de l'Homme, ex musee de ethnographique du Trocadero, 1878, ex Bibliotheque nationale at Paris, pre 1792

Reference:

Hamy, Ernest T. 1897. Note on a wampum representing the Four Nations of the Hurons”,  Journal of the Society of Americanists,  vol 1, no. 3.

Nunez-Regueiro, Peace and Nikolaus Stolle . 2022. A History of Indigenouse North American Wampum Objects in France, 1678-1845 . Translation: Pickford, SusanWampum: the Pearls of Diplomacy, Open Edition Journals. https://journals.openedition.org/gradhiva/6229