Photographs (left to right): All Niobara County, Wyoming

Wampum Belt Archive

 

American Museum of Natural History

AMNH 50/2902

Stolle 2016

belt

Hamell 2024

Original Size:

unknown dimensions

Reproduction:

Beaded length: 29 inches. Width:2.0 inches. Length w/fringe: 49.0 inches.

Beads:

Rows: 10. Columns: 183. Total beads: 732.

Materials:

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

Description:

Black shell bead belt with 12 white, diagonal, double shell bead lines, and two single diagonal lines, 11 rows, however the number of rows depicted on his image are 10.

AMNH Cat. No. 50/2902, gift of Lucia K. Whiteman

Reference:

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