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Wampum Belt Archive

Wabanaki Peace Belt

Original Size:	Glass
Reproduction:	Beaded Lenght: 1.0 inches. Width: 1.25 inches, Length w/fringe: 23.0 inches
Beads:	Rows: 4. Columns: 85. Beads: 344. Includes 2 beads half size.
Materials:	Warp: Deer Hide. Weft: Artificial Sinew. Beads: Glass.

Description:

Speck reported ((1915):

"this belt was the peace belt, one of about the same size, entirely white with the figure of a pipe in blue in the center (pl. xxiv, fig. d). This was to inform the allies that overtures of peace had been received from the enemy, and also served as a summons to council to consider the proposals."

Note the top rim edges of the pipe are 1/2 size beads and there is a blue bead in the upper left cornee of the belt. Does this indicate the belt may have been longer?

Reference:

Speck, Frank G. 1915. The Eastern Algonquian Wabanaki Confederacy. American Anthropologist, New Series, Vol. 17, No. 3, July-Sept., pp. 492-508.