Wampum Belt
date: label: Accession Date
content: 29 Sep 1892
name: label: Donor Name
content: William N. Thompson
notes: label: Notes
content: Catalogue cards (which see) indicate the donor had called this the "Great Wampum Belt of Union." The cards also contain his speculations on its history and interpretation. The donor provided no documentation for this attribution, which Dr. William Sturtevant, Emeritus Curator for North American Ethnology, found very questionable. Per Dr. Sturtevant, the only information that may be stated definitively about the belt is that it is a wampum belt from the Great Lakes region probably dating from the 18th century.
label: Notes
content: See appendix, pp. 43-45, 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. 268, after p. 476, and described on pp. 408-409.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 15 Sep 2021
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Ontario, Canada, North America
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Wyandot (Wyandotte, Wendat) (?)
label: Culture
content: Great Lakes Indian
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 026237
label: USNM Number
content: E165103-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Wampum