Photographs (left to right): Sunset, Albuquerque, New Mexico; Silver Pennies, Rush, New York; Tent Rocks National Monument, New Mexico

Wampum Belt Archive

 

'Ohawa' (Odawa) EMB IV B 7596

Drawing: R.D. Hamell Dec. 30, 2022

Spacing of the rectangles is proportional to distance shown in Krickeberg image.

 

Original Size:	Rows: 6. Length 80cm. 31.5 inches.
Reproduction:	Beaded Length: 25.7 inches. Width: 3.5 inches. T.Length w/fringe: 49.7 inches.
Beads:	Columns: 162. Rows: 7. Beads: 1,134.
Materials:	Warp: Deer Leather. Weft: Artificial Sinew. Beads: Polymer.

Description:

Black shell belt with 10 white outlined shell bead squares. A single glass bead, gray parts rearranged after 1906, Red Wool warps. Exchanged with Walter C. Wyman in 1908, who collected it among the Odawa, Emmet County in 1901.

Reference:

Krickeberg. Walter. 1954. Altere Ethnographica aus Nordamerika im Berliner Museum fur Volkerkunde. Baessler-Archive, N.F. 2.

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