wampum belt
wampum belt
wampum belt
Wampum belt made of 11 warps of tanned hide, possibly deer skin, with white and purple wampum beads. There are 5 diagonal parallel lines, with four done a single line of purple beads, a double line of white beads, and a triple line of purple beads. This motif is reversed on the other side. The threading is made of cotton.
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Made of 11 warps of tanned deer skin, white and purple wampum beads, and cotton thread.
The beads are strung on cotton thread interspersed with hide thong warp.
5 diagonal parallel line; four done a single line of purple beads a double line of white beads and a triple line of purple beads.
Provenance
About This GRASAC Record
Unknown Haudenosaunee artist, wampum belt. Currently in the Weltmuseum Wien, Vienna, Austria, 15253. Item photographed and described as part of a GRASAC research trip January 2016; GRASAC item id 58993.
In January of 2016, a small team of GRASAC researchers visited the collection to study and photograph it: Ruth Phillips, Lisa Truong, Naomi Recollet (Anishinaabe (Odawa/Ojibwe), Wiikwemkoong Unceded Territory) and Wahsontiio Cross (Mohawk, Kahnawake). This GKS record was created in November of 2021 by GRASAC RA Aidan Mitchell-Boudreau.
43.6, -71.9
Haudenosaunee territory is located in North-eastern North America.