Photographs (left to right): Mt. Charleston, Nevada; St. Thomas, Pennsylvania; Okefenokee National Wildlife Refuge, Florida

Wampum Belt Archive

Univ Museum Philadelphia #3880 (Newberry)

Haudenosaunee Belt

Original Size:

Length: 11.8 inches. Rows: 5.

Reproduction:

Beaded Length: 16. Width: 2.5 inches. Length w/fringe: 28 inches.

Beads:

Rows: 5. Columns: 101. Beads: 105.

Materials:

Warp: Deer leather. Weft: Artifical Sinew. Beads: Polymer.

Description:

Black shell bead belt with three white, chequered shell bead triangles. UPMAA Cat. No. NA 3879, gift of Miss Charlotte Siter through J. G. Rosengarten (cf.: Becker 2004: 110)

Reference:

Becker, Marshall J. & Lainey, Jonathan. 2004. Wampum Belts with Initials and/or Dates. American Indian Culture and Research Journal. 28 (2).

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