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Photographs (left to right): All Niobara County, Wyoming
Wampum Belt Archive
NMAI 09 2567
National Museum of American Indian
October 23 2024 R. D. Hamell
Original Size: |
Rows: 9. Length: ? |
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), (Stolle, 2016: Plate 16, Figure 211).
Wampum on cordage on leather. MAI 9/2567 Erminnie Smith 1884.
Reference:
Beauchamp, William M. 1901. Wampum and Shell Articles Used by the New York Indians. New York State Museum Bulletin No. 41, Vol. 8.
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
Stolle, Nickolaus. 2016. Talking Beads. Plate 16, Fig. 211. Hamburg, Germany.
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