Wampum Necklace
date: label: Accession Date
content: 6 Feb 1908
name: label: Donor Name
content: George G. Heye
notes: label: Notes
content: From card: "Five rows restrung on black thread. Design, white stars on purple. 'From Frank Atwin.' 'Wampum; woven strip. Venus mercenaria shell beads, cotton thread, ribbon. Cylindrical shell beads, woven on cotton thread. Purple ground, with a design of seven repeating 'star' motifs in white; 'star' composed of one bead centered over three beads, centered over seven beads, over three, over one, vertically. Lengths of ribbon, shrimp-pink and gold, attached at ends.' - Ruth Whitehead, Nova Scotia Museum, July 1985."
label: Notes
content: Records of George Gustav Heye, under catalogue number 1/2803 or 012803.000, preserved in the National Museum of the American Indian files, indicate this wampum necklace or "neck band" was collected by Frank M. Covert, 1907, and was "From Frank Atwin, Passamaquoddy, Pleasant Point, Maine."
label: Record Last Modified
content: 15 Dec 2014
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Pleasant Point (Sipayik), Washington County, Maine, United States, North America
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Passamaquoddy (Peskotomuhkati)
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 048318
label: USNM Number
content: E248742-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Wampum