Photographs (left to right): Zion National Park, Utah; Nine Mile Canyon, Utah; Cape Breton, Nova Scotia, Canada

Wampum Belt Archive

 

Penobscot Marriage Belt

 

Diagrammed May 01 2020 R.D.Hamell

 

Original Size:	unknown
Reproduction:	Beaded length: 26.0 inches. Width: 3.0 inches. Length w/fringe: 50.0 inches.
Beads:	Columns: 165. Rows: 6. Beads: 990
Materials:	Warp: Deer leather. Weft: Artificial sinew. Beads: Polymer.

Description:

Described as a marriage proposal belt. Figures: man and woman, two crosses and four wigwams.

Reference:

Speck, Frank G. 1964. Wampum among the Eastern Algonquian. Kraus Reprint Corp, reprint Memoirs of American Anthropological Assoc., Vol. V, 1918.