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Wampum Belt Archive

 

Origin? Odawa Belt

 

 

Ethnologisches Museum Berlin Germany

Russia EMB IVB 1233

 

 

Original Size:	Rows: 10.
Reproduction:	Beaded Length: 32.5 inches. Width: 5.0 inches. T.Length w/fringe: 56.5 inches.
Beads:	Columns: 188. Rows:10. Beads: 1,880.
Materials:	Warp: Deer Leather. Weft: Artificial Sinew. Beads: Polymer.

Description:

Black shell bead belt with 6 white outlined diagonally arranged shell bead squares with filled center and triangular white ends with 5 black short bars. 10 rows, unknown dimensions, gray parts missing, war booty since 1945 in Russia.

EMB Cat # IV-B-1233. Purchased from Hugo Schilling in 1882. (Krickeberg, 1954: 233, 235 Plate 46 c)

Reference:

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