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Iroquois-Pitkin Wampum Belt

R.D. Hamell

EMB IV-B-7608

Ethnologisches Museum Berlin, Germany

Original Size:	6 rows. Length: 96.2 cm. 37.9 inches.
Reproduction:	Beaded Length: 40.0 inches. Width: 2.5 inches. Length w/fringe: 64.0 inches
Beads:	Rows: 5. Columns: 255. Beads: 1,275.
Materials:	Warp: leather. Weave: artificial sinew. Beads: Polymer.

Description:

Black shell bead belt with two white, outlined shell bead diamonds. Wrapped edges/ "Pitkin Belt" war booty since 1945 in Russia. Old label "War Belt". exchanged with Walter C. Wymann in 1908, purchased from Charles P. Sanders in 1904, ex Anna D. Pitkin Collection, 1903, gift of Iroquois Chief Johnson to Reverend Thomas Clapp Pitkin DD, Buffalo in 1864-66.

Reference:

Stolle, Nickolaus. 2016. Talking Beads. Hamburg, Germany.