Conch Shell Wampum-Stock
date: label: Accession Date
content: 19 Aug 1926
label: Collection Date
content: 1775 to 1825
name: label: Collector
content: Carl F. Schendorf
label: Donor Name
content: Amerindian Museum
label: Site Name
content: Campbell Factory
notes: label: Notes
content: PROVENIENCE NOTE: THERE WAS A PENCILLED ERROR ON THE CATALOG CARD SUGGESTING THIS SITE WAS THE CITY OF PASSAIC, NOT "PASCACK, NEW JERSEY." THE ACCESSION RECORDS INDICATE THAT THE SPECIMEN, "COUNTERFEIT WAMPUM MADE BY SCOTCH AND DUTCH TRADERS TO DECEIVE THE INDIANS," WAS COLLECTED FROM THE SHORES OF THE PASCACK CREEK, IN BERGEN COUNTY, AT THE SITE OF A MILL OPERATED BY ABRAHAM D. CAMPBELL, 1775-1825. THIS SPECIMEN "WAS MADE FROM CONCH SHELLS FROM THE GULF OF MEXICO. GENUINE WAMPUM WAS MANUFACTURED FROM THE PYRULA, OR WHELK SHELL, COMMON TO LONG ISLAND." SEE PP. 42-46 IN "HAIR PIPES IN PLAINS INDIAN ADORNMENT" BY JOHN C. EWERS, B.A.E. BULLETIN 164, NO. 50, FOR INFO. ON CAMPBELL FAMILY SHELL WAMPUM (HAIR PIPE) MILL OR FACTORY ON PASCACK BROOK, A TRIBUTARY OF THE HACKENSACK RIVER, IN PASCACK (NOW PARK RIDGE), BERGEN CO., N.J.
label: Notes
content: From Card: "The lot contains material for making trade wampum and consists of pieces worked in various stages of completeness ranging from a conch shell to individual pieces of drilled, beveled, circular, tubes, ready for mounting."
label: Notes
content: Reference: Johnson, Eric Daniel. 2021. An Archaeology of Settler Capitalism: Industrialization, Indigenous Sovereignty, and Shell Beads between New Jersey and the Plains, 1750–1900 CE. Doctoral dissertation, Harvard University Graduate School of Arts and Sciences. https://nrs.harvard.edu/URN-3:HUL.INSTREPOS:37368198 .
label: Record Last Modified
content: 8 Aug 2022
label: Specimen Count
content: 50
place: label: Place
content: Pascack Creek / Pascack (Park Ridge), Bergen County, New Jersey, United States, North America
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 092825
label: USNM Number
content: E331963-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Wampum