Wampum String
date: label: Accession Date
content: 1991
name: label: Donor Name
content: No Information
notes: label: Notes
content: This object was formerly on exhibit in NMNH Exhibit Hall Hall 9, case 13. When on exhibit its label identified it as : "PAIR OF WAMPUM EAR PENDANTS WORN BY CHIPPEWA CHIEF HOLE-IN-THE-DAY." In 2004 this object was removed from exhibit and was found to be one circular string of 68 white tubular wampum beads with 3 purple beads, strung on copper wire. Object currently appears to resemble a necklace more than ear pendants though it may have been restrung? One possibility is that bundles of wampum were sometimes worn by men through holes in their ears, so this could be an object of that type?
label: Record Last Modified
content: 30 Jun 2023
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Great Lakes (not certain) / Woodlands (Northeast) (not certain), United States (not certain) / Canada (not certain), North America
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: (?)
label: Culture
content: Chippewa (Ojibwe, Anishinaabe) (?)
setName: label: See more items in
content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 999999
label: USNM Number
content: ET15388-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Wampum