Wampum Strings
date: label: Accession Date
content: 4 Jun 1952
name: label: Collector
content: Mr. J. N. Hewitt
label: Collector
content: Dr. William N. Fenton
label: Donor Name
content: Bureau Of American Ethnology
notes: label: Notes
content: From card: "Wampum strings of 'Requickening'. Duplicate set #2. Consists of fifteen double strings of tubular white and purple shell wampum. Terminal of squares cut leather. One double string, all purple is 14" long. Quotation from Mr. Fenton's memorandum. '2a) A duplicate set of the same, which may be the wampum purchased of John Buck, which Hewitt was in process of labeling with tags when he died, 1936. This evidently was the Onondaga set, and may be somewhat different. (Of the Six Nations, both the Three Brothers (Mohawk-Onondaga-Seneca) possess a set of these strings; and the Four Brothers (Oneida-Cayuga-Tuscarora-Tutelo), which vary slightly in the manner of stringing the beads.)' Lent to Div. Numismatics, Dept. Civil. Hist. 11/8/60, ret'd 2-8-85." From second card: "Ceremonial wampum of the Iroquois collected by J.N.B. Hewitt in 1928-29, at the Six Nations Reserve, Ontario."
label: Record Last Modified
content: 17 Oct 2018
label: Specimen Count
content: 15
place: label: Place
content: Six Nations Reserve, Ontario, Canada, North America
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Iroquois (Haudenosaunee), Onondaga
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 192830
label: USNM Number
content: E391950-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Wampum