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

Original Size:

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

Reproduction:

 

Beads:

 

Materials:

 

Description:

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

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