Photographs (left to right): Coso, California; Coso, California; Custer State Park, South Dakota

Wampum Belt Archive

Passamaquoddy

NMNH E248742

Stolle Plate 21. Figure 267

National Museum of Natural History, New York.

belt

R.D. Hamell November 18 2024

 

Original Size:

Rows: 5. Length: 26.5 cm. 10.4 inches

Reproduction:

Beaded length: 16.8 inches. Width: 2.5 inches . Length w/fringe: 36.8 inches.

Beads:

Columns: 102. Rows: 5. Total: 510 beads.

Materials:

Warp: Deer leather. Weft: Artificial sinew. Beads: Polymer.

Description:

Black shell belt with three white interlinked double lines. Purchased from William O. Oldman in 1906.

Pleasant Point Reservation, Maine. Neckband. Weave: Cordage. Warp: Cordage.

Exchanged with NMAI 01/2803 in 1908, ex George G. Heye Collection.

Reference:

National Museum of American Indian. 2024.

Stolle, Nickolaus. 2016. Talking Beads. Hamburg, Germany. Plate 21. Figure 267.