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

Wampum Belt Archive

 

not to scale

Huron?

Museumk der Weltkulturen Frankfurt, Frankfurt am Main, Germany

WMF N.S. 47389

 

Original Size:	5 rows. Length 100.4 cm. 40 inches.
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Description:

White shell belt with four flank outlined shell bead squares and four central black diagonal double lines, and at both ends three horizontally arranged short black lines.

Purchased from Arthur Speyer, Jr. in 1969. Acquired via Earnest Ohley between 1962 and 1967. ex H. G. Beasley Collection pre1937.

Reference:

Stolle, Nickolaus. 2016. Talking Beads: The history of wampum as a value and knowledge bearer, from its very first beginnings until today. Hamburg, Germany. ISSN 1437-7837