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Photographs (left to right): Butterfly Conservatory, Niagara Falls, Ontario, Canada; Maplewood Park, Rochester, New York; Butterfly Conservatory, Niagara Falls, Ontario, Canada
Wampum Belt Archive
Iroquois
PMAE HU 84626
Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology, Harvard Univ., Cambridge, MA
Hamell Oct0ber 08, 2024
Original Size: |
Rows 9. Length:42.2 inches. Width: 1.9 inches. |
Reproduction: |
Length: 32.0 inches. Width: 4.5 inches. Length w/fringe: 52.0 inches. |
Beads: |
Columns: 199. Rows: 9. Beads: 1,791. |
Materials: |
Warp: Deer leather. Weft: Artificial sinew. Beads: Polymer. |
Description:
Circa: 1850 or earlier.
Peabody Museum:
Quahog (Mercenaria mercenaria) shell, white-tailed deer (Odocoileus virginianus) hide?, milkweed (Asclepias syriaca) or basswood (Tilia glabra) cordage, red ochre.
Previously owned by Chief Smoke Johnson (unknown)
Reference
Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology, Harvard Univ., Cambridge, MA
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