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

Wampum Belt Archive

 

cf. Passamaquoddy

Drawing: R.D.Hamell April 07 2022

British Museum London, London, England

BML 523.2

Original Size:	Rows 6. Length: 23.5 cm. 9.25 inches
Reproduction:	Beaded length: 13.0 inches. Width: 3.0 inches . Length w/fringe: 33.0 inches.
Beads:	Columns: 81. Rows: 6. Total: 486 beads.
Materials:	Warp: Deer leather. Weft: Artifical sinew, Beads: Polymer.

Description:

Black shell bead belt with three white, double zigzag lines interspaced with white shell bead crosses, ends white, 6 rows, L: ca. 23.5 cm, grey parts missing, BML Cat. No. Ethno 1906.5-23.2 (Bushnell 1906c: Plate 18, C), purchased from William O. Oldman in 1906

Reference:

Stolle, Nickolaus. 2016. Talking Beads. Hamburg, Germany.