Photographs (left to right): Sunset, Albuquerque, New Mexico; Silver Pennies, Rush, New York; Tent Rocks National Monument, New Mexico

Wampum Belt Archive

Stolle's image

BML 1878 11 1 625

British Museum London

 

Figure R. D. Hamell December 09 2021

Spacing of figures based on Stolle's drawing

 

Original Size:	5 rows length: 113cm. 44.5 inches est. Columns 287.
Reproduction:	Beaded length: 22.5 inches. Width 8.0. Total length w/fringe: 46.5 inches
Beads:	1,445 beads
Materials:	Warp: Deer leather. Weft: Artificial sinew. Beads: Glass.

Description:

Translucent wine red glass bead strap of pouch with a central white double cross flanked by four white checkered diamonds. Edges wrapped. Ex Samuel Rush Meyrick Collection (1783-1848).

Reference:

Stolle, Nickolaus. 2016. Talking Beads. Hamburg, Germany. Plate 14. Fig. 191