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Wampum Belt Archive

 

Stockbridge Munsee Belt

Reproduction R. D. Hamell December 05 2024

PCD H Presbyterian Church, Dept. History, Philadelphia, Pa.

Original Size:

Rows: 2. Length: undetermined

Reproduction:

Beaded Length: 36 inches. Width: 1.0 inch. Length w/fringe:38.0 inches.

Beads:

Columns: 36. Rows: 2. Beads: 72. Polymer.

Materials:

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

Description:

Black shell bead miniature belt, part of Lenni-Lenape doll, 2 rows, di mensions not available, red wool warps, PCD, Cat. No. u., presented to Rev. Cutting Marsh by Big Deer of the Stockbridge Munsee in 1838 (Pannabecker 1996: 270, Fig. 2)

Belt reproduction (Hamell) may not be true to original.

Reference:

Pannabecker, Rachel K. 1996 . Tastily Bound with Ribands: Ribbon-bordered Dress of the Great Lakes Indians, 1735-1839. Clothing and Textiles Research Journal 14: 267-275.

Stolle, Nickolaus. 2016. Talking Beads. Hamburg, Germany. Plate 2 Figure 19.