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Wampum Belt Archive

 

Penobscot Vatican Belt

Wampum Garter

From Becker (2004: Vatican Museum)

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Small wampum garter.

Vatican Ethnographic and Missionary Museum, Vatican City, Rome, Italy (VEMM) Am 2890. Identified as Penobscot, transferred to the present institution in ca 1927, ex Museo Borgiano No. 133.

Reference:

Becker, Marshall. 2004. A Penobscot Wampum Belt in the Vatican Museums: A possible Nineteenth Century Example of Native American Diplomacy." Bollettino - Monumenti. Musei e Gallerie Pontijicie Vol. XXIV: 225-270.

 

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