Photographs (left to right): Water Moccasin, Florida; Little Dismal Swamp, South Carolina: Poke Berry, Rush New York

Wampum Belt Archive

 

Huron-Wendat

Courtesy Museum of Victoria, Melbourne, Australia

Reproduction Hamell March 16, 2017

 

Original Size:	Rows: 11. Length: ?
Reproduction:	Beaded length: 46.0 inches. Width: 5.5 inches. Total w/fringe: 70.0 inches.
Beads:	Rows: 11. Columns: 3,201.
Materials:	Warp: Deer leather. Weft: Artificial sinew. Beads: Polymer.

Description:

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).

Philippe Vincent Theanwathasta, grand chief of the Huron Wendat worn the belt in 1897. The Victoria Museum image was, drawn by Samuel Douglas Smith Hughue in 1846 as part of the Huron-Wendat archive at Lorette, present Wendake.

 

Reference:

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

Museum of Victoria. 2017. Melbourne, Australia