Photographs (left to right): All Niobara County, Wyoming

Wampum Belt Archive

 

White Wampum Belt

MSUM U

Faxsimile (Hamell May 26, 2022)

Odawa/Ottawa

Original Size:	Rows: 3. Length 3.3 cm. 1.3 inches
Reproduction:	Beaded Length: 1.1 inches. Width: 1.5 inches. Length w/fringe:  3.0 inches.
Beads:	Columns: 6. Rows: 3. Beads: 18.
Materials:	Warp: Deer leather. Weft: Artificial sinew. Beads: Polymer.

Description:

White bead belt. Fletcher Site Cemetery ca 1740-1750. Mainfort 1979, p. 405 Fig 72.

Reference:

Mainfort, Robert C., Jr. 1979. Indian Social Dynamics in the Period of European Contact. Fletcher Site Cemetery, Bay County, Michigan. Anthropological Series 1(4). East Lansing, MI: Michigan State University.

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