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

Tantaquidgeon Museum, Uncasville, Connecticut

Original Size:	Rows 4. Length: ?
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Description:

Black shell belt with two white checkered shell bead triangles. ex NMAI u, collected by Frank G. Speck among the Penobscot in ca 1906.

Reference:

Stolle, Nickolaus. 2016. Talking Beads: The history of wampum as a value and knowledge bearer, from its very first beginnings until today. Hamburg, Germany. ISSN 1437-7837