Wampum Belt
date: label: Accession Date
content: 1991
name: label: Donor Name
content: No Information
notes: label: Notes
content: From card: "Six (6) rows of wampum; purple background white geometric designs." Stored with Northeast unidentified collections.
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 appears to be the one illustrated in Plate 24, Fig. 270, after p. 476, and described on p. 409, which is attributed to the U.S. National Museum: "... a small belt whose history is now unknown, but which is supposed to have belonged to the Mohawks. The beaded part is 20 inches, or 160 beads long and is six rows deep. The beads are quite uneven, but have the usual average length. Purple beads form the ground, and on this are two very broad open diamonds in white beads. Three short rows of white alternate with the purple at one end, and at the other are six rows of white alternately long and short. The thongs are of twisted buckskin." This belt may be E73983?
label: Record Last Modified
content: 19 Jan 2022
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Woodlands (Northeast) (not certain), United States (not certain) / Canada (not certain), North America
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Iroquois (Haudenosaunee), Mohawk (Kanienʼkehá꞉ka) (?)
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 999999
label: USNM Number
content: ET1769-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Wampum