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

Wampum Belt Archive

ca Seneca Belt

NMAI 24/3553

belt

R.D.Hamell December 01 2024.

Original Size:

Rows: 10. Length: ?

Reproduction:

Beaded Length: 16.0 inches. Width: 5.0 inches. Length w/ fringe: 36.0 inches

Beads:

Rows: 10. Columns: 95. Beads: 950.

Materials:

Warp: Deer Leather. Weft: Artificial Sinew. Beads: Polymer.

Description:

White shell beaded belt with 10 black shell diamonds. Acquired in 1970. Recovered in Ontario County (New York).

Reference:

Stolle, Nickolaus. 2016. Talking Beads. Hamburg, Germany. Plate 13. Figure 170.

 

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