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

Wampum Belt Archive

 

CMH III I 930

 

Original Size:	Rows 7. Length: 104 cm. 41 inches.
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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: The history of wampum as a value and knowledge bearer, from its very first beginnings until today. Hamburg, Germany. ISSN 1437-7837