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

Wampum Belt Archive

Passamaquoddy

 

NMAI 01 2803

Plate 21 Figure 266 (Stolle, 20160

National Museum of the American Indian, Smithsonian Institution, Washington D.C.

belt

 

R.D. Hamell November 19 2024

 

Original Size:

Rows: 5. Length: 80 cm. 31.5 inches.

Reproduction:

Beaded length: 14.0 inches. Width: 2.5 inches. Length w/fringe: 34.0 inches.

Beads:

Columns: 88. Rows: 5. Total: 440 beads.

Materials:

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

Description:

The belt had bead replacements which rendered some figures to appear incomplete. The reproduction (Hamell) restored the images.

Pleasant Point Reservation, Maine. Neckband.

 

Reference:

National Museum of American Indian . 2024.

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