Photographs (left to right): All Mohave Desert, California/Nevada

 

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Wabanaki Peace Belt

Speck (1915), Plate 24, Figure D.

Description:

Speck reported:

"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."

Reference:

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