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

Wampum Belt Archive

 

Eastern Woodland

Approximate drawing of strap. Hamell March 31 2021

 

BML 1878 11 1 625

British Museum London

 

Original Size:

Rows: 5. Length: 44.5 inches. Edges wrapped

Reproduction:

Beaded length: 63.5 inches. Width 2.5. Total length w/fringe: 87.5 inches.

Beads:

Columns: 480 Rows: 5. Total beads 2,400.

Materials:

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

Description:

Transluscent burgundy glass beads with white checkered glass diamonds. Shoulder strap of pouch. Previous owner Rush Meyrick Collection (1783-1848).

Reference:

Feest, Christian F. 2007. German Collections from the American Revolution. In: Christian F. Feest and Jonathan C. H. King (eds.) Three centuries of Woodlands Indian art: a collection of essays. ERNAS Monographs 3. Altenstadt: ZKF Publishers, 44-54.

Feest 2014. Christian F. 2014. Wampum from Early European Collections, Part 2: Cuffs, Bags and More. American Indian Art Magazine 40(1): 70-78.

King. J. C. H. 1999. First Peoples first Contacts: Native Peoples of North America. London: British Museum Press.

Stolle, Nickolaus. 2016. Talking Beads. Fig. 191; Plate 14. Plate Hamburg, Germany.