Wampum Belt
date: label: Accession Date
content: 22 Apr 1899
name: label: Donor Name
content: Bureau Of American Ethnology
notes: label: Notes
content: FROM CARD: "OLD WAMPUM MADE OVER IN RECENT YEARS BY UNKNOWN PERSONS AND HENCE PROBABLY WITHOUT ETHNIC SIGNIFICANCE. WOVEN OF HOMEMADE CORD OF WOOL OR TUNIE [sic, should be tunic?]. ILLUS. IN AR SI, 1930; PL. 2, BOTTOM; P. 556. WOVEN ON RED WEFT. TWO FIGURES W/CLASP HANDS AND INITIALS IGS ARE DESIGN."
label: Notes
content: From a 1984 publication caption done for this object by Dr. William Sturtevant: "Wampum belt with initials IGS and two human figures. Old wampum made over by unknown person. Woven of homemade cord of wool or tunic. The IGS may stand for John Graves Simcoe, governor-general of Canada, 1791 - 1794, and the two figures hand in hand may signify an alliance between him and some Indian group. Collected by Willis N. Tobias in Moraviantown, Kent County, Canada." 11 rows of wampum.
label: Notes
content: See pp. 36-38, under # 17, and figure 2 (belt is mistakenly called # 165103 in this article), in "Wampum Belts with Initials and/or Dates as Design Elements: A Preliminary Review of One Subcategory of Political Belts" by Marshall Joseph Becker and Jonathan Lainey, AMERICAN INDIAN CULTURE AND RESEARCH JOURNAL 28:2 (2004); http://aisc.metapress.com/content/014701t32r41u005/fulltext.pdf .
label: Notes
content: See Beauchamp, William Martin. Wampum and Shell Articles Used by the New York Indians. New York State Museum Bulletin Number 41. Albany: University of the State of New York, 1901. https://nysl.ptfs.com/awweb/pdfopener?md=1&did=63696 . This object is illustrated in Plate 24, Fig. 269, after p. 476, and described on p. 391 and 409.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 23 Jan 2023
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Canada, North America
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Indian
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 034924
label: USNM Number
content: E201156-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Wampum