The belt is woven with animal hide thong warps and vegetable fibre and/or sinew wefts, made of white and purple wampum beads.

The belt has 9 warps: it is 8 rows wide, and 145 beads long. The British Museum object catalogue states the belt was woven on a bow-loom. The rhythm of the "V" design and marks on the thong warps which indicate additional wefts might have once been present suggest the belt may not be complete.

The white ground is decorated with a double zig-zag line composed of 7 "v" motifs touching at the base/apex, done in purple wampum.

This belt was purchased by the British Museum from Mrs D K Oldman in 1949, as part of a larger collection created by her husband, W O Oldman.

Unknown artist, wampum belt. Currently in the British Museum, Am,St.792. Item photographed and described as part of a GRASAC research trip December 2007; GRASAC item id 25589.

This record was created as part of a Great Lakes Research Alliance for the Study of Aboriginal Arts and Cultures (GRASAC) research trip to the Pitt Rivers Museum and British Museum, December 8-22 2007, funded by a grant from the International Opportunities fund of the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC).

Researchers present: Heidi Bohaker (HB), John Borrows (JB), Lindsay Borrows (LB), Alan Corbiere (AC), Henrietta Lidchi (HL), Stacey Loyer (SL), Janis Monture (JM), Bruce Morito (BM), Ruth Phillips (RP), Anne De Stecher (AS), Cory Willmott (CW).