Photographs (left to right): Coso, California; Coso, California; Custer State Park, South Dakota

Wampum Belt Archive

Penobscot/Passamaquoddy

PMAE HU 96 22 10 48239

Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology, Harvard Univ., Cambridge, MA

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R. D. Hamell November 18 2024

 

Original Size:

Rows: 5. Length: 47.1cm. 18.5 inches.

Reproduction:

Beaded length: 11.5 inches. Width: 2.5 inches . Length w/fringe: 31.5 inches.

Beads:

Columns: 72. Rows: 5. Total: 360 beads.

Materials:

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

Description:

Black shell bead belt with 5 white checkered shell diamonds. Collected at "Indian Island', Oldtown, Maine.

Reference:

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