Photographs (left to right): Ocean, San Diego Beach, California; California Desert Ocean Sunset; San Diego Beach, California

Wampum Belt Archive

 

Unknown

Private Collection (Stolle, 2016)

belt

R.D. Hamell December 09 2024

 

Original Size:

Rows: 7. Length: 58.5 cm. 23.0 inches. Glass.

Reproduction:

Beaded length: 26.5 inches. Width: 3.5 inches. With fringe 40.5 inches.

Beads:

Rows: 7. Columns: 167. Beads: 1,169.

Materials:

Warp: Deer Leather. Weft. Artificial Sinew. Beads: Glass.

 

Description:

White glass bead belt with dark blue central, vertically arranged rectangle, with three Horizontally, short bars, and inner white glass bead square, flanked by symmetrically arranged, dotted designs and horizontal bars, ending in horizontally, mirrored outlined dark blue glass bead pyramids. Auction October 1994, ex Private Collection, glass beads are identically with Frank G. Speck beads, used for recreations. (Christie’s 1994: 37, Lot 110)

Reference:

Stolle, Nickolaus. 2016. Talking Beads. Hamburg, Germany. ISSN 1437-7837