wampum belt

wampum belt

wampum belt

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wampum belt with hexagonal designs, collected by Frank Speck, Onkwehonwe (Hodenosaunee, Iroquois), possibly Oka Reserve, Quebec, 1800s.

Nation of Maker: Hodenosaunee/Haudenosaunee
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Place of Origin: Québec, QC
Date Made or Date Range: 1800s
Materials

skin thong, vegetable twine, shell beads: purple, white.

Techniques or Format

"long, rectangular, 4 lanes deep, worked on skin thong, and vegetable fibre twine. Shell beads are predominantly purple wampum, with 6 hexagonal designs in white beads repeated at even intervals down length." (from Catalog Card).

Dimensions: 35 × 4.5 × 0 cm
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museum documentation

Current Location: Canadian Museum of History, Ottawa, Canada
Catalogue, Accession or Reference Number: III - I - 930
Date Relative was First Removed or Collected from its Community Context: 1800s to 1913
GKS Reference Number: 27053
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