Photographs (left to right): All Letchworth State Park, New York

Wampum Belt Archive

 

Oka Belt 1870

William Notman 1898

belt

Hamell Oct. 26, 2024

photo

Onondaga Chief Isaac Hill Kaweneseronton of the Six Nations Confederacy with this belt draped around his neck in 1870 in Montreal, Quebec (McCord Stewart Museum).

Original Size:

Rows 8. Length not given

Reproduction:

Beaded Length: 30.0 inches. Width: 4.0 inches. Length w/fringe:  54.0 inches.

Beads:

Columns: 190. Rows: 8. Beads: 1,520.

Materials:

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

Description:

Black shell belt with a human figure holding a white shell hatchet. Checkered board squares at ends. Oka Belt.

William Notman photographed Onondaga Chief Isaac Hill Kaweneseronton of the Six Nations Confederacy with this belt draped around his neck in 1870 in Montreal, Quebec (McCord Stewart Museum).

Black shell bead belt with two white shell bead rows from end to end, interspaced at one side by white human figure with a white hatched in hand, ends composed of black, stepped Worn by a Chief at Oka around his neck in 1870 (In Stolle, 1016: Fenton and Tooker 1978: 447, Fig. 11).

The left end has 21 rows of white beaded columns.

 

Reference:

Fenton, William N. and Elisabeth Tooker. 1978. Mohawk. In: Bruce G. Trigger (ed.) Northeast. Handbook of North American Indians 15. Washington, DC: Smithsonian Institution, 466-480.

McCord Stewart Museum 2013. Montreal, Cananda. https://collections.musee-mccord-stewart.ca/en/objects/104585/le-chef-onondaga-isaac-hill-kaweneseronton-de-la-confederati?ctx=563e74d0a666affb28e1c278ab0ea0453e371e6a&idx=23

Notman, Willaim. 1870. Photography, https://collections.musee-mccord-stewart.ca/en/objects/104585/le-chef-onondaga-isaac-hill-kaweneseronton-de-la-confederati?ctx=563e74d0a666affb28e1c278ab0ea0453e371e6a&idx=23

Stolle, Nickolaus. 2016. Talking Beads. Hamburg, Germany. ISSN 1437-7837.