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

Wampum Belt Archive

 

Cherokee

 

Graphic: Richard D. Hamell May 11, 2020

Keetoowah -Keeper of the Flame of the Cherokee.

Original Size:	not given
Reproduction:	Beaded length: 65.0 inches. Width: 6.0 inches. Length w/fringe: 89.0 inches
Beads:	Columns: 390. Rows: 12. Total beads: 4,680.
Materials:	Warp: Deer leather. Weft: Artificial sinew. Polymer beads.

Description:

Black shell bead belt with two white hatchets are on end and two human figures at the other. Unknown History

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