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Wampum Belt Archive

 

Huron or Wendat ? Belt

McCord Cat. # M11083

Drawing R. D. Hamell Nov. 25, 2021

 

 

Original Size:	Length: 41.5 inches. Width: 2.0 inches.
Reproduction:	Beaded Length: 47.3 inches. Width: 3.5 Inches. Length w/fringe: 71.3 inches.
Beads:	Columns: 298. Rows: 7. Total beads: 2,086.
Materials:	Warp: Deer Leather. Weft: Artificial Snew. Beads: Polymer.

Description

Black shell bead belt with five white shell beads squares. Eastern Woodlands circa 18th or 19th century. Cat. M11083 Sir William Johnson Papers 10, Seven Years War. pp. 504-506 (Quote: pp. 505-506) “Brother: One of our People lately, in a vision, was told by the Great Spirit above, that when He first made the World, He gave this large Island to the Indians for their Use; at the same time He gave other Parts of the World beyond the great Waters to the rest of creating, and gave them different languages: That He now saw the white People squabbling, and fighting for these Lands which He gave the Indians, and that in every Assembly, and Company of Governors, and Great Men. He heard nothing scarce spoke, or talk 'd of, but claiming, and wanting, large Possessions in our Country. This He said was so contrary to his Intention, and what He expected wou'd be the Consequences at the time when the white People first came, like Children, among Us, that He was quite displeas'd, and would, altho their Numbers were ever so great, punish them it They did not desist.”

References

Johnson, Sir William. 1762. Sir William Johnson Papers. Johnson Hall, Sept. 18, 1762 10, pp. 504-506.

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