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Wampum Belt Archive

NMAI belt fragment 24/6887

Plate 15 Figure 202 (Stolle 2016)

 

belt

R. D. Hamell

December 12 2024

Original Size:

Rows: 15. Length: 4.4 cm. 1.7 inches .

Reproduction:

Length: 2.0 inches. Width: 7.5 inches. Length w/fringe: 3.0 inches.

Beads:

Columns:13. Rows: 15. Beads: 195.

Materials:

Warp: Deer Leather. Weft: Artificial Sinew. Beads: Polymer.

Description:

Northeast Woodland?.

Black shell bead belt fragment. Exchanged with George Economos in 1972, ex BHM (Bernisches Hirstorisches Museum, Berne, Switzerland) Cat#u, ex. Captain Malcolm Collection, pre 1827.

Reference:

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