Photographs (left to right): All Monhonk, New York

Wampum Belt Archive

 

Penobscot - Passamaquoddy

belt

AIEA 2563B

belt

N. Stolle Plate20 Figure 254

R. D. Hamell November 23 2024

 

Original Size:

Rows: 15. Length: 67.3 cm.

Reproduction:

Beaded length: 18.0 inches. Width: 7.5 inches . Length w/fringe: 42.0 inches.

Beads:

Columns: 114. Rows: 15. Total: 1,710 beads.

Materials:

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

Description:

Black shell bead strap edged with white beads and separated into eight parts by white, diagonal double lines, each space filled with a white, open shell bead cross, white edges, 15 rows, L: 67.3 cm, p. l. u., Skinner Auction.


American Indian and Ethnographic Arts, 2011, Lot 277, Sale No. 2563B, ex Frank Siebert Coll., acquired in 1940 from the estate of Francis Stanislaus, worn by Sylvia Stanislaus in 1875, pictured in a photograph of Mary Balase in 1865, too (Cole-Will 2004: 66)

Acquired by the institution in 1906.

Note: Strap beaded with Peyote stitch.

Reference:

Cole-Will, Rebecca. 2004. The Frank T. Siebert Collection of Native American Art. American Indian Art Magazine 29(3):64-71.

Stolle, Nickolaus. 2016. Talking Beads. Plate 20. Fig. 254.Hamburg, Germany.