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

Wampum Belt Archive

 

Huron-Wendat

 

 

Original Size:	Rows: 11. Length: ?
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Description:

Black shell belt fragment. Gray areas missing since 1895. Private collection. Worn by Philippe Vincent Theanwathasta, grand chief of the Huron Wendat in 1897, drawn by Samuel Douglas Smith Hughue in 1846 as part of the Huron-Wendat archive at Lorette, present Wendake.

Reference:

Beauchamp, 1901. Wampum and Shell Articles Used by the New York Indians. NYS Mus. Bull. 41, pp. 321-480.