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Photographs (left to right): Coso, California; Coso, California; Custer State Park, South Dakota
Wampum Belt Archive
SMP E 64.1.8
State Museum of Pennsylvania, Harrisburg, PA
Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology, Harvard Univ., Cambridge, MA
R.D. Hamell November 20, 2024
Left pyramid restored (see Stolle, 2016
Original Size: |
Rows: 6. |
Reproduction: |
Beaded Length: 15.6 inches. Width: 3.0 inches. Length w/fringe: 39.6 inches. |
Beads: |
Columns: 98. Rows: 6. Beads: 588. |
Materials: |
Warp: Deer leather. Weft: Artificial sinew. Beads: Glass. |
Description:
Black shell bead belt with central white, equilateral shell bead cross, flanked by white, checkered shell bead triangles, 6 rows, unknown dimensions,
SMP Cat. No. E 64.1.8, unknown history (Becker 2004: 85, 109). )
Reference:
Becker, Marchall. 2004 A Penobscot Wampum Belt in the Vatican Museums: A Possible Nineteenth Century Example of Native American Diplomacy. Bolletino Dei Musei e Gallerie Pontifici 24: 79-124.
Stolle, Nickolaus. 2016. Talking Beads: Hamburg, Germany. Plate 21, Figure 264.
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