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Wampum Belt Archive

 

Mackinac cf. Belt AMNH 50.2 2966

Chippewa-Ottawa

17th Century?

Hamell February 18, 2024

 

Original Size:	Length: 5.5 inches. Width: 3.7 inches.
Reproduction:	Beaded length: 42.1 inches. Width: 5.0 inches. Length w/fringe: 66.0 inches.
Beads:	Columns: 43. Rows: 14. Total beads: 602.
Materials:	Warp: Deer Leather. Weft: Artificial Sinew. Beads: Polymer.

 

Description:

Small black wampum belt with two white diamonds.

Also referred to as the Mackinac Belt. , Tiffany Morgan Collection. Collected by G. F. King and exhibited at the World's Fair in Paris.

Locale: MI, Emmet County? Mackinaw City? Region: Eastern Canada. Shell, thread and Hide. Gift of J. P. Morgan in 1928. Transferred from the Mineralogy Dept. Tiffany. Collected by G. F. Kunz.

AMHN description: Wampum belt, Tiffany Morgan Collection. Collected by G. F. King and exhibited at the World's Fair in Paris. Given to the museum (1928) by J. P. Morgan.

Locale: MI, Emmet County? Mackinaw City?

Region: Eastern Canada. Shell, thread and Hide

 

Reference:

American Museum of Natural History.

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