Photographs (left to right): Red-tailed Hawk, Rush, New York; Medusa Jellyfish, Chattanooga Aquarium, Tennessee; Apple Blossoms, Cornell Univ., New York

Wampum Belt Archive

 

Eastern Woodland Canada

McCord M1912

Original Size:

Rows: 12. Length: 85.5 cm. 33.7 inches.

Reproduction:

Beaded length: 48.0 inches,. Width: 6.05 inches. Total length with fringe: 72.0 inches.

Beads:

Rows: 317 by 12 beads wide. Total beads: 3,636.

Materials:

Warp: leather. Weave: artificial sinew. Beads: Polymer.

Description:

Stolle (2016) - Black shell bead belt with three white, outlined shell bead human figures, one in centre and one at each end, connected by two white shell bead row, one end partially white vertical shell bead bar, 11 rows, L: 85.5 cm, grey parts missing, MCM Cat. No. M1912, gift of David Ross McCord.

Reference:

McCord Museum. 2012. http://www.mccord-museum.qc.ca/en/

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