Photographs (left to right): All Niobara County, Wyoming

Wampum Belt Archive

Russia

Peter the Great Museum of Archaeology and Ethnography, st. Petersburg, Russia

PGMAE 985 27 10 60264

belt

R. D. Hamell November 27 2024

Original Size:

Rows: 6. Length: 62.2 cm. 24.5 inches.

Reproduction:

Beaded length: 46.0 inches. Width: 3.0 inches. Length w/fringe: 70.0 inches.

Beads:

Rows:6. Columns: 178. Beads: 1,668.

Materials:

Warp: Deer leather. Weft: Artificial sinew. Beads: Polymer

Description:

Black shell wampum with three sets of two diagonals. Unknown history.

Reference:

Stolle, Nickolaus. 2016. Talking Beads. Hamburg, Germany. Plate 7. Figure 84.