Photographs (left to right): Sunset, Albuquerque, New Mexico; Silver Pennies, Rush, New York; Tent Rocks National Monument, New Mexico

Wampum Belt Archive

Penobscot

AMNH 50.1/9952

belt

R. D. Hamell November 22 2024

 

Original Size:

Rows: 4. Length 30.5 cm. 12 inches.

Reproduction:

Beaded length: 12.0 inches. Width: 2.0 inches . Length w/fringe: 24.0 inches.

Beads:

Columns: 75. Rows: 5. Total: 300 beads.

Materials:

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

Description:

White glass belt with central black space flanked by two black crosses.

Purchased from Grant G. Speck in 1916, made by Penobscot girl an identical version is part of the collections in the CMH: Canadian Museum of History, Gatineau, Quebec, Canada.

Compare the design and meaning with Frank T. Siebert's drawing of Penobscot belts, preserved at the American Philosophical Society.

Reference:

Canadian Museum of History. 2015. https://www.historymuseum.ca/ Gatineau, Quebec, Canada.

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

 

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