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

Wampum Belt Archive

 

Mohawk Condolence Belt

NMAI 16/3826

Hamell October 27, 2024

Original Size:	Rows: 10. Length: ?
Reproduction:	Beaded Length: 46.0 inches. Width: 5.0 inches. Length w/fringe: 70.0 inches.
Beads:	Columns: 290. Rows: 10. Beads: 2,900.
Materials:	Warp: Deer Leather. Weave: Artificial Sinew. Beads: Polymer.

Description:

Black shell belt with 6 white outlined shell bead diamonds, and five horizontal bars at both ends. Kanesatake, Oka. Acquired by institution in 1929, collected by Frank G. Speck among the Mohawk at Oka. Repatriated 1997.

Reference:

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