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Wampum Belt Archive

Odawa Belt

Hamell November 06, 2024

Ethnologisches Museum Berlin, Germany

After Stolle 9, Fig. 322_(2016: Plate 2 )

EMB IV-B-7597

 

Original Size:	Rows: 16. Length: 128 cm. 50.4 inches
Reproduction:	Beaded Length: 67.0 inches. Width: 8.0 inches. Length w/fringe:  91.0 inches.
Beads:	Columns: 389. Rows: 16. Beads: 6,224.
Materials:	Warp: Deer leather. Weft: Artificial sinew. Beads: Polymer.

Description:

Black shell belt with center white, standing Latin shell bead cross with stand and flaring ends of cross-bars, flanked by two sets of three white human shell figures, ends in white shell bead blocks with five black shell bead bars, partially zigzag. Strung on red wool warps, war-booty since 1945 in Russia. Exchanged with Walter C Wyman in 1908, collected 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.