Photographs (left to right): Sinkhole from Mine Collapse, Genesee Valley, New York; Letchworth State Park, New York; Rochester Gorge, Rochester, New York

Wampum Belt Archive

 

Mohawk Wampum Belt

NMAI Cat. No. 092567.000

Original Size:	Rows: 9.
Reproduction:	Length: 53.5 inches. Width: 4.5 inches. Length w/fringe: 77.8 inches.
Beads:	Columns: 337. Rows: 9. Beads: 3,033.
Materials:	Warp: Deer leather. Weft: Artificial sinew. Beads: Polymer.

Description:

Black shell bead belt with four white, outlined shell bead hexagons, parted by two white, diagonal, double shell bead lines, and five white bars at both ends, 9 rows, L: grey parts missing, NMAI Cat. No. 09/2567 (Fenton 1989: 399, Fig. 3.), gift of Harmon W. Hendricks in 1919, collected before 1884 (Fenton and Tooker, 1978: in Stole, 2016).

Wampum on cordage on leather. MAI 9/2567 Erminnie Smith 1884

Reference:

Fenton, William N. and Elisabeth Tooker. 1978. Mohawk. In Bruce G. Trigger (ed.) Northeast. Handbook of North American Indians 15. Washington, DC: Smithsonian Institution, 466-480.

NMAI Catalog No. 09/2567