Photographs (left to right): Wyoming; Oregon Trail, Nebraska, Tetons, Wyoming

Wampum Belt Archive

 

Stockbridge

Milwaukee Public Museum 30127

belt

Reproduction R.D. Hamell December 07 2024

 

Original Size:

not given

Reproduction:

Length: 25.0 inches. Width:3.5 inches. 45.0 inches with fringe.

Beads:

Rows: 7. Columns: 101. Beads: 707

Materials:

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

Description:

Fragment of a purple wampum belt with white wampum open diamond. Wampum beads are strung on hemp between buckskin thongs. Owned by Chief Austin L. Quinine. Collected 1849. Various bead sizes, especially the white wampum in the diamond motif.

Reference:

Handbook of North American Indians 15 Northeast by the Smithsonian, 1978, fig. 7, p. 206.