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Wampum Belt Archive

 

Iroquois-French Peace Belt

NMAI 03/1901

 

Original Size:	Rows: 14. Length: ?
Reproduction:	Beaded Length: 50.0 inches. Width: 6.0 inches. Length w/fringe: 74.0 inches.
Beads:	Columns: 317.Rows: 14. Beads: 4,438.
Materials:	Warp: Deer leather. Weft: Artificial sinew. Beads: Polymer.

Description:

Described by Thomas R. Roddy (In Beauchamp, 101), perhaps erroneously as a Iroquois-French Peace Belt which may be as old as 200 years (Stolle, 2016).

Purchased by Thomas R. Roddy from James Jamieson, Cayuga chief in 1899, repatriated to the Haudenosaunee Council in 1988. (Beauchamp, 1901).

Reference:

Beauchamp, 1901, p. 423.

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