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

Wampum Belt Archive

 

Penobscot

R. D. Hamell November 20, 2024

DEG W3443

Donald Ellis Gallery, Dundas, Ontario, Canada

Plate 18 Fig. 240

 

Original Size:	Rows 12. Length: 118.1 cm. Glass.
Reproduction:	Beaded Length: 77.0 inches. Width: 6.0 inches. Length w/fringe: 111.0 inches.
Beads:	Columns: 486. Rows: 12. Beads: 5,712
Materials:	Warp: Deer leather. Weft: Artificial sinew. Beads: Glass.

Description:

Black, actually translucent wine red glass bead belt in centre with two mirrored, stepped, open pyramids, each filled with an white, open cross, flanked by in opposite direction linked white, outlined, checkered glass bead triangles, both filled with white, checkered diamonds, followed by a hourglass shaped white, checkered glass bead design, actually two arranged in opposite direction, and connected, checkered glass bead traingles, six short white bars at each end, 12 rows, L: 118.1 cm, grey parts missing, DEG W3443 (2007), Northeast Auctions 2006, ex William H. Guthman Coll., ex Charles Ratton Coll. (Northeast Auctions (ed.) 2006: 79, Lot 801)

Donald Ellis Gallery. Northeast Auctions 2006.

Reference:

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