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

Wampum Belt Archive

R. D. Hamell 12 08 2024

Switzerland

MEG K000437

Musee d’ethnographie de Genee, Geneva. Switzerland

Original Size:	Rows: 11. Length: ?
Reproduction:	Beaded Length: 38.7 inches. Width: 5.5 inches. 64.7 inches with fringe.
Beads:	Rows: 11. Columns: 143. Beads: 1,573.
Materials:	Warp: Deer Leather. Weft. Artificial Sinew. Beads: Glass.

Description:

Wine red glass bead strap to pouch with three checkered diamonds. Edges wrapped. Gift of Pierre-Louis Dunant to the Musee archaeologique in 1875.

Reference:

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