Photographs (left to right): All Tioga, Pennsylvania

Wampum Belt Archive

 

Wampanoag?

Beauchamp 1901

Denver Art Museum Wampum Belt

DAM 1952.242

R. D. Hamell December 18 2024

Original Size:	Rows: 5.
Reproduction:	Beaded Length: 13.0 inches. Width: 2.5 inches. Length w/fringe: 33.0 inches
Beads:	Rows: 5. Columns: 80. Total beads:400.
Materials:	Warp: Deer Leather. Weft: Artificial Sinew. Beads: Polymer.

 

Description:

Black shell bead belt, central design composed of three white, equilateral, stepped, open shell bead crosses, connected by a row and intersected with two white, triangular-like figures, composition flanked by two white, equilateral, open shell bead crosses, one at each end, 5 rows, L: 334 Explanation of Plates 24.5 cm, gray parts missing, edges wrapped, yarn warps, DAM Cat. No. 1952.242, formerly in the PMAE, HU (Conn 1979: 56)

Reference:

Beauchamp, William M. 1901. Wampum and Shell Articles Used By The New York Indians. New York State Museum Bulletin No. 41, Plate 34

Conn, Richard. 1979. Native American art in the Denver Art Museum. Mount Vernon, NY: A. Colish, Inc.

Denver Art Museum.