Photographs (left to right): Cardinal Flowers, Adirondacks, NY; Mountain Stream, Adirondacks, NY; Hole-in-Wall, San Raefel, Utah

Wampum Belt Archive

 

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

Pre 1792

Stolle Plate 24 Figure 294

PMAE 67.10.10/288

R. D. Hamell November 19, 2024

Original Size:	Rows: 11.
Reproduction:	Beaded Length: 52.0 inches. Width: 5..5 inches. Length w/fringe: 76.0 inches.
Beads:	Columns: 329. Rows: 11. Beads: 3,619.
Materials:	Warp: Deer leather. Weft: Artificial sinew. Beads: Glass.

Description:

Black glass bead strap with two stepped diagonals flanking a zig-zag image. There are two sets of this icons on each these images. In the center there is a white checkered diamond. The ends of the belt have six white glass bead bars.

Shoulder strap of pouch, PMAE, HU Cat. No. 67-10-10/288, ex Harvard University, 1867, ex Massachusetts Historical Society, ex Freeman Coll., pre1792 (Feest 2007a: 52; Feest 2014b: 73f., Fig. 5).

Similar to the Great Peace Belt of 1701 except made with glass beads and incluseion of the central diamond. Shoulder strap of pouch.

 

Reference:

Dunnigan, Brian Leigh. 2001. Frontier Metropolis Picturing Early Detroit, 1701-1838. Great Lakes Books, 247pp.

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