Photographs (left to right): Butterfly Conservatory, Niagara Falls, Ontario, Canada; Maplewood Park, Rochester, New York; Butterfly Conservatory, Niagara Falls, Ontario, Canada

Wampum Belt Archive

belt

 

belt

Hamell (After Wyman)

Ethnologisches Museum Berlin, Germany

 

Original Size:

Rows 4. Length: 77 cm. 30.3 inches.

Reproduction:

Beaded length: 29 inches. Width:2.0 inches. Length w/fringe: 49.0 inches.

Beads:

Rows: 4. Columns: 183. Total beads: 732.

Materials:

Warp: Deer Leather. Weft: Artificial Sinew. Beads: Polymer.

Description:

Black shell belt cut in two halves. "Glen Sanders Belt" war booty since 1945 in Russia. Exchanged with Walter C Wyman in 1908, purchased from Charles P. Sanders, Scotia, Schenectady County, NY in 1904.

Reference:

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