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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.
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