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

Wampum Belt Archive

NMAI 09 2567

National Museum of American Indian

Original Size:

Rows: 9. Length: ?

Reproduction:

 

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Description:

Black shell bead belt with four outline white hexagons parted by tow white diagonal double shell lines and fie white bars at both ends. Gift of Harmon W. Hendricks in 1919, collected before 1884.

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