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

Wampum Belt Archive

Mohawk Wampum Belt

NMAI 16/3827

National Museum of the American Indian, Smithsonian Institution, Washington D.C.

Courtesy of the Haudenosaunee Standing Committe on Burial RUles and Regulations

belt

Reproduction Design

R. D. Hamell May 28, 2022

Original Size:

Columns: 352. Rows: 9. Length: 112.5 cm. 44.3 inches.

Reproduction:

Columns: 352. Rows: 9. Beaded Length: 56.0 inches. Width: 4.5 inches. Length w/fringe: 80 inches.

Beads:

Polymer. Total: 3,166.

Materials:

Warp: Deer Leather. Weft: Artificial Sinew.

Description:

Black shell bead belt with fie white outlined shell bead diamonds. Wrapped edges. ex NMAI 16/3827. Collected by Frank G. Speck from Kanesatake, Quebec in 1913.

Repatriated

Reference:

Courtesy of the Haudenosaunee Standing Committe on Burial RUles and Regulations