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Wampum Belt Archive

Odawa SMVM 36-33-15

Staatliches Museum fur Volkerkunde Munchen, Munich, Germany

 

belt

Hamell November 5, 2024

Original Size:

Rows: 5. Length 76 cm. 30.0 inches. Glass.

Reproduction:

Beaded Length: 35.0 inches. Width: 5.0 inches. T.Length w/fringe: 59.9 inches.

Beads:

Columns: 204. Rows:10. Beads: 2.040.

Materials:

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

Description:

Black shell belt with 4 and a half glass white outlined bead diamonds., vertically orientation of belt. Exchanged with Walter C. Wyman in 1908, collected among the Odawa, Emmet County in 1901.

Reference:

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