Photographs (left to right): Butterfly Conservatory, Niagara Falls, Ontario, Canada; Maplewood Park, Rochester, New York; Butterfly Conservatory, Niagara Falls, Ontario, Canada

Wampum Belt Archive

Penobscot?

Univ. Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, Philadelphia, PA

Original Size:

Rows: 5. Length: 30 cm. 112 inches.

Reproduction:

 

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Materials:

 

Description:

Black shell bead belt with 3 white checkered triangles. Gift of MIss Charlotte Siter through J.G. Rosengarten.

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