Photographs (left to right): Orchid Niagara Falls Butterfly Museum, Ontario, Canada; Red Dragonfly, Mendon Ponds, New York; Unknown plant, Niagara Falls Butterfly Museum, Ontario, Canada

Wampum Belt Archive

 

Pitt Rivers Wampum Belt

PRMO 1952.5.08

Original Size:

Rows: 5. Length: 65 cm. 25.6 inches.

Reproduction:

Beaded Length: 25.0 inches. Width: 2.5 inches. Length w/fringe: 41.0 inches.

Beads:

Columns: 159. Rows: 5. Beads: 795

Materials:

Warps: Deer Leather. Weft: Artificial Simew. Beads: Polymer.

Description:

White shell belt with central outlined shell bead oval with horizontally flaring bars. Purchased from Colonel Shirley's in 1966.

Reference:

Pitts Rivers Museum Collection. 2015. https://pittrivers-object.blogspot.com/2015/05/