Photographs (left to right): Sunset, Albuquerque, New Mexico; Silver Pennies, Rush, New York; Tent Rocks National Monument, New Mexico

Wampum Belt Archive

PMAE HU 90-17-10/49326

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

belt

R.D. Hamell November 20, 2024

Original Size:

4 rows. Length: ca 12.5cm

Reproduction:

Beaded Length: 8.0 inches. Width: 2.0 inches. Length w/fringe: 12.0 inches.

Beads:

Columns: 51. Rows: 4. Beads: 204.

Materials:

Warp: Deer leather. Weft: Artificial sinew. Beads: Glass.

Description:

Two glass bead bands, left composed of alternating yellow and translucent blue bead squares edged by white. Right band made of alternating translucent blue and white bead rows.

Flap decoration of single moccasin. Unknown History.

Reference:

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

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