Photographs (left to right): Sunset, Albuquerque, New Mexico; Silver Pennies, Rush, New York; Tent Rocks National Monument, New Mexico

Wampum Belt Archive

 

Iroquois? Belt

FJ u

Fort Johnson, Amsterdam, New York

Ethnologisches Museum Berlin, Germany

 

Original Size:

Rows: 5. Length: ?

Reproduction:

 

Beads:

 

Materials:

 

Description:

Black shell bead belt with a single white outlined shell diamond. Unknown history.

Reference:

Stolle, Nickolaus. 2016. Talking Beads: The history of wampum as a value and knowledge bearer, from its very first beginnings until today. Hamburg, Germany. ISSN 1437-7837