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

Wampum Belt Archive

 

WMW 15 253

 

Original Size:	10 rows Length 59.5 cm
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Description:

White shell belt with 5 black diagonal double shell bead lines. Purchased from Hugo Shilling in 1886.

Reference:

Stolle, Nickolaus. 2016. Talking Beads: The history of wampum as a value and knowledge bearer, from its very first beginnings until today. Hamburg, Germany. ISSN 1437-7837

Tooker. E. 1998. A note on the Return of Eleven Wampum Belts to the Six Nations. Ethnohistory 45, 2, pp. 219-236,