Photographs (left to right): All Monhonk, New York

Wampum Belt Archive

 

MET Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

MET 39.87

Original Size:

Rows 8. Length: ?

Reproduction:

 

Beads:

 

Materials:

 

Description:

Translucent wine red glass beads with six outlined hexagons. edges wrapped. GIft of Mrs J. H. Gibert in 1939.

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