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

Original Size:	4 rows. Length: ca 12.5cm
Reproduction:
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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: The history of wampum as a value and knowledge bearer, from its very first beginnings until today. Hamburg, Germany. ISSN 1437-7837