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Photographs (left to right): All Dinosaur National Monument, Utah
Wampum Belt Archive
Penobscot Vatican Belt
Wampum Garter
From Becker (2004: Vatican Museum)
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Description:
Small wampum garter.
Vatican Ethnographic and Missionary Museum, Vatican City, Rome, Italy (VEMM) Am 2890. Identified as Penobscot, transferred to the present institution in ca 1927, ex Museo Borgiano No. 133.
Reference:
Becker, Marshall. 2004. A Penobscot Wampum Belt in the Vatican Museums: A possible Nineteenth Century Example of Native American Diplomacy." Bollettino
- Monumenti. Musei e Gallerie Pontijicie Vol. XXIV: 225-270.
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