Photographs (left to right): Coso, California; Coso, California; Custer State Park, South Dakota

Wampum Belt Archive

Tonawanda Seneca

Stolle Plate 14 Figure 189

NMAI 10/4264

National Museum of the American Indian, Smithsonian Institution, Washington D.C.

R. D. Hamell December 02 2024

 

Original Size:	Rows: 6.
Reproduction:	Beaded Length: 6.7 inches. Width: 2.0 inches. Length w/ fringe: 14.7 inches
Beads:	Rows: 6. Columns:40. Beads: 240.
Materials:	Warp: Deer Leather. Weft: Artificial Sinew. Beads: Polymer.

Description:

Black shell bead belt fragment with a single white diamond. Edges wrapped. Presented by Harmon W. Hendricks in 1921, collected by William L. Bryant at the Cattaraugus Reservation. Repatriated to the Tonawanda Band of Senecas in 1996.

Reference:

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