Photographs (left to right): All Mendon Ponds Park, Mendon, New York

Iroquois? Wampum Belt

MFV Berlin IB 7605

Wynn Collection (Krickeberg 1954)

 

Glen Sanders? Belt

berlin

Glen Sanders Belt Krickeberg 1954 reprint Tafel 47c.jpg

Original Size:

not given

Reproduction:

Beaded length: 32.0 inches. Width:4.0 inches. Two sets.

Beads:

Columns: 198. Rows: 4. Beads: 792.

Materials:

Warp: Deer leather. Weft: Artificial sinew. Beads: Polymer.

 

Description:

Black shell bead belt, cut in two halves, each with three white, chequered shell bead triangles, 4 rows, L: 77 cm, “Glen Sanders Belt”, war-booty since 1945 in Russia, EMB Cat. No. IV-B-7605, exchanged with Walter C. Wyman in 1908, purchased from Charles P. Sanders, Scotia, Schenectady County, N.Y. in 1904 (Krickeberg 1954: 235f., Plate 47 c: In Stolle, 2016).

Reference:

Krickeberg, Wlater. 1954. Altere Ethnographica aus Nordamerika im Berlner Museum fur Volkerkunde. Baessle-archive, N.F. 2.

Stolle, Nickolaus. 2016. Talking Beads. Hamburg, Germany. ISSN 1437-7837