Photographs (left to right): Butterfly Conservatory, Niagara Falls, Ontario, Canada; Maplewood Park, Rochester, New York; Butterfly Conservatory, Niagara Falls, Ontario, Canada

Wampum Belt Archive

Huron?

PMAE HU 13-17-10/84626

Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology, Harvard Univ., Cambridge, MA

 

Original Size:

Rows 7. Length: 69.5 cm. 25.8 inches.

Reproduction:

 

Beads:

 

Materials:

 

Description:

Black shell bead belt with four white diagonally arranged sets of three open shell bead crosses. Collected by Allen Cleghorn.

Reference:

Stolle, Nickolaus. 2016. Talking Beads: The history of wampum as a value and knowledge bearer, from its very first beginnings until today. Hamburg, Germany. ISSN 1437-7837