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

 

Wampum Belt Archive

Haudenosaunee ca.

 

belt

Couresty Sotherby

 

belt

 

Devember 11 2023 R. D. Hamell

Original Size:

Rows: 3. Length: 24.4 cm. 9.6 inches

Reproduction:

Beaded length: 13.5 inches. Width: 1.0 inches. Length w/ fringe 25.0 inches.

Beads:

Rows: 3. Columns: 87. Beads: 258.

Materials:

Warp: Deer Hide. Weft: Artificial Sinew. Beads: Glass 5mm.

Description:

Sotheby's Auction (2005). cf. Phillips & Idiens (1994: 28), “It is possible, too, that a beaded pendant of glass wampum beads in the Farquharson collections is Iroquoian in origin. There was, during the period of the American Revolution, a fashion for purple and white cylindrical glass beads that imitate the appearance of shell wampum beads. Although this fashion may date back to the mid-eighteenth century, the documented extant examples are associated with the period of the American Revolution. Outstanding examples include a bag woven of glass beads in the Landsmuseum, Braunschweig, collected by August Wilhelm Du Roi, a Brunswick mercenary soldier who served with the British during the American Revolution, and a large and elaborate wampum belt collected by General De Pester, the American commandant at Fort Michilimacinac in the central Great Lakes who remained loyal to the British during the Revolutionary War.”

Stolle (2016) stated the small belt was composed of "translucent wine red with 14 and a half crosses made with white glass beads. The belt was sold in 2005 at Sotheby's Auction (Lot 17).

 

Reference:

Phillips, Ruth and Dale Ideins. 1994. Journal of the History of Collections, Volume 6, Issue 1.

Sotheby's Auction. 2005. : https://www.sothebys.com/en/auctions/ecatalogue/2005/american-indian-art-n08107/lot.17.html

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