Photographs (left to right): All Monhonk, New York

Wampum Belt Archive

CMH III I 930

Stolle

 

Hamal

 

 

Original Size:	Rows 7. Length: 104 cm. 41 inches.
Reproduction:	Beaded Length: 58.5 inches. Width: 3.5 inches. Length w/fringe: 82.5 inches.
Beads:	Columns: 369. Rows: 7. Total Beads: 2.583
Materials:	Warp: Deer leather. Weft: Artificial sinew. Beads: Polymer.

Description:

Black shell bead belt with six white outlined shell bead hexagons and three short bars at ends. Wrapped edges, ends of belt secured with extra row of wefts like among trapezoidal cuffs. Received by the institution in 1913, collected by Frank G. Speck from a Frenchman who had married a Mohawk woman, he purchased it from an old chief of the Mohawk at Oka.

Reference:

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