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Wampum Belt Archive

Passamaquoddy

PMAE HU 985 27 10 60263B

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

 

R. D. Hamell November 17, 2024

Original Size:	Rows: 5.
Reproduction:	Beaded Length: 11.5 inches. Width: 2.5 inches. Length w/fringe: 235 inches.
Beads:	Columns: 72. Rows: 5. Beads: 360.
Materials:	Warp: Deer leather. Weft: Artificial 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:

Stolle, Nickolaus. 2016. Talking Beads. Germany.