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

Wampum Belt Archive

 

St Regis Treaty Wampum Belt 1796

Heye Foundation

Original Size:	Rows: 6.
Reproduction:
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Description:

Originally there were five diagonal bars representing braces to buttress up the house so that it would not fall. Made when the St. Regis were taken-in so that the St Regis was a brace to the Five Nations, and the Five Nations to the St. Regis

Reference:

Heye Foundation. Iroquois Belts in the New York State Museum.