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

Wampum Belt Archive

Ojibwe

Original Size:

13 rows Length: 102.9 cm. 40.5 inches

Reproduction:

 

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Description:

Black shell belt with four white diagonal doubled shell bead lines and comb like end design.

ex Sotheby's, NY 2000 (lot 175) ex Private Collection, Sotheby's NY 1068, ex Private Collection, gift of Chief Shingwauk or White Pine, Western Ojibwa to Sir John Colborne before 1834 (Sotheby's 1998, Lot 705).

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