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

Wampum Belt Archive

Penpobscot ?

EMB IV-B-7610

R.D. Hamell November 23 2024

Original Size:	Rows: 7. Length: 77.6 cm
Reproduction:	Beaded length: 42.0 inches. Width: 3.5 inches. Length w/fringe: 66.0. inches.
Beads:	Rows: 7. Columns: 265. Beads: 1,855.
Materials:	Warp: Deer leather. Weft: Artificial sinew. Beads: Polymer.

Description:

Black shell bead belt with three white, diagonal shell bead lines, 7 rows, L: 77.6 cm, grey parts missing, war-booty since 1945 in Russia, EMB Cat. No. IV-B-7610, exchanged with Walter C. Wyman in 1908, ex John Howell Hunt Coll., 1903, ex Charles Wilcox Coll., descended in family for ca. 150 years (Krickeberg 1954: 12, 237, Plate 47 b)

Reference:

Krickeberg. Walter. 1954. Altere Ethnographica aus Nordamerika im Berliner Museum fur Volkerkunde. Baessler-Archive, N.F. 2.

Stolle, Nickolaus. 2016. Talking Beads. Hamburg, Germany. Plate 7. Figure 80.