Photographs (left to right): Butterfly Conservatory, Niagara Falls, Ontario, Canada; Maplewood Park, Rochester, New York; Butterfly Conservatory, Niagara Falls, Ontario, Canada

Wampum Belt Archive

 

Passamaquoddy -Mailseet

 

belt

Hamell November 17 2024

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Original Size:

Rows 4. Length: ?

Reproduction:

Beaded length: 17.0 inches. Width: 2.0 inches . Length w/fringe: 33.0 inches.

Beads:

Columns: 106. Rows: 4. Total: 424 beads.

Materials:

Warp: Deer leather. Weft: Artifical sinew, Beads: Polymer.

Description:

Black shell bead belt with five white, chequered shell bead diamonds, central three with extended bars, 5 rows, L: 57 cm, edges wrapped, PMAE,

324 Explanation of Plates: HU Cat. No. 985-27-10/60263B, collected by William Wallace Brown among the Passamaquoddy in ca. 1875.

 

Reference:

National Museum of American Indian.

Stolle, Nickolaus. 2016. Talking Beads. Hamburg, Germany. Plate 18, Figure 238.