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

PMAE HU u

Plate 18 Fig 229

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

belt

R. D. Hamell November 17, 2024

 

Original Size:

Rows 6. Length: ?

Reproduction:

Beaded Length: 10.2 inches. Width: 3.0 inches. Length w/fringe: 22.2 inches.

Beads:

Columns: 64. Rows: 6. Beads: 384.

Materials:

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

Description:

Black shell bead belt with alternating white, chequered shell/glass bead triangles, and double “T” s, incomplete length, PMAE, HU Cat. No. u., unknown history.

Reference:

Stolle, Nickolaus. 2016. Talking Beads. Hamburg, Germany. Plae 18 Figure 229.