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Wampum Belt Archive

PMAE HU 985-27-10/602263A

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

R. D. Hamell November 19 2024

 

Original Size:	Rows: 6.
Reproduction:	Beaded Length: 23.5 inches. Width: 3.0 inches. Length w/fringe: 33.5 inches.
Beads:	Columns: 141. Rows: 6. Beads: 846.
Materials:	Warp: Deer leather. Weft: Artificial sinew. Beads: Polymer.

Description:

Black shell bead belt parted into three equal spaces by white, equilateral shell bead crosses, which fields are filled by a white, chequered shell bead
triangle, flanked by a white diagonal, double chequered line, 6 rows, L: 58.5 cm, wrapped edges, PMAE, HU Cat. No. 985-27-10/60263A, collected by William Wallace Brown in ca. 1875. Plate 24 Figure 294 (Stolle, 2016) .

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