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

Wampum Belt Archive

Warnock Collection

 

March 04 2004 Richard D. Hamell

Original Size:

Rows: 4.

Reproduction:

Beaded length: 31.6 inches. Width: 2.0 inches. Length w/fringe: 52.0 inches.

Beads:

Columns: 174. Rows: 4 rows wide. Beads: 696.

 

Materials:

Warp: Deer leather. Weft: Artificial sinew. Beads: Polymer

Description:

Black shell band with two ses of two offset open crosses.

Warnock Collection Cat. #8912007-A4.3. Purchased at Sotheby's Auction in 1989. Ex Private collection. Said to have been collected by James Drumond, Eigth Vice Count of strathallen before 1851 (Feest, 2014; Stolle, 2016).

Reference:

Feest, C. 2014. Wampum from Early European Collections, Part 1: Strings, Belts and Bracelets. American Indian Art Magazine 39(3): 32-41, 71.

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

Warnock Collection: http://www.splendidheritage.com/DataPages/WC8903045.html.

 

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