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

Wampum Belt Archive

NMAI 01/2400

Original Size:	Rows: 13. Length: 82 cm. 32.3 inches.
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Description:

Black shell bead strap, outlined with white beads and separated into nine parts by white, diagonal double lines, spaces filled with white, open shell bead crosses or dots, 13 rows, L: 82 cm, NMAI Cat. No. 01/2400, 332 Explanation of Plates acquired by the institution in 1906 (Speck 1964: 21, Plate 1, 23; cf.: Becker 2004: 110)

Reference:

Speck, Frank G. 1919. The function of wampum among the eastern Algonkian (reprint 1964). New York: Kraus and Reprint Corporation

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