warp is sinew, weft is cotton thread. Red pigment of some kind has been rubbed on the belt. Can see traces on the warp/weft and fringe.

warp is doubled and twisted together on the ends

A series of 3 nested diamond patters in white, on a purple background, separated by 2 parallel diagonals followed by three more diamonds. This belt also has the checkerboard pattern at the end of each row.

catalog card, it was collected in 1913.

Extract of letter from Speck: "There are two of them (wampum belts). They came from the Iroquois at Oka Reserve and of course are very old. I got them from a Frenchman who had married an Indian woman. He had brought them with him from Oka, where an old chief had sold him the pieces, telling him that the white figures on the blue background denoted chiefs, the more elaborate the figure the higher in rank was the chief." See letter from woman who donated the belts (Mrs Green?) See Box OC120#2 at National Museum of the American Indian archives in Washington for a letter related to these belts.

Item to be cited by catalog number, collection and institution.

GRASAC sponsored research trip to the CMC, June 16 to 20. Supported by the SSHRC Aboriginal Research Grant, 2007-2010

Researchers present: Jonathan Lainey (JL), Ruth Phillips (RP), Judy Hall (JH), Stacey Loyer (SL), Anne de Stecher (AS), Heidi Bohaker (HB), Aaron Mills (AM), Janis Monture (JM), John Moses (JMoses) and Jameson Brant (JBrant).