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

Wampum Belt Archive

State Museum of Pennsylvania

belt

R.D. Hamell December 09 2024

 

Original Size:
Beaded Length: 28.0 inches. Width 3.3 inches. Rows: 6.

Reproduction:

Beaded length: 32.0 inches. Width: 6.0 inches. Length w/ fringe 56.0 inches.

Beads:

Rows: 6. Columns: max 67. Beads: 356. Glass

Materials:

Warp: Deer Hide. Weft: Artificial Sinew.

Description:

Fragmentary band of translucent blue glass beads with several white. Unknown history.

Reference:

Stolle, Nickolaus. 2016. Talking Beads. Hamburg, Germany.