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

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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.