Photographs (left to right): Sunset, Albuquerque, New Mexico; Silver Pennies, Rush, New York; Tent Rocks National Monument, New Mexico

Wampum Belt Archive

Penobscot?

Smithsonian Unknown

 

Original Size:

Rows: 7. Length ?

Reproduction:

 

Beads:

 

Materials:

 

Description:

Belt of alternating white and black and squares containing colored crosses. Unknown history. Similar design seen in Penobscot belt AMNH 50.1/9952

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