Photographs (left to right): Coso, California; Coso, California; Custer State Park, South Dakota

Wampum Belt Archive

Switzerland

MEG K000437

Musee d’ethnographie de Genee, Geneva. Switzerland

Original Size:

Rows: 11. Length: ?

Reproduction:

 

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Description:

Wine red glass bead strap to pouch with three checkered diamonds. Edges wrapped. Gift of Pierre-Louis Dunant to the Musee archaeologique in 1875.

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