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wampum string
wampum string
wampum string
String of white wampum beads. Northeastern Woodlands, made between 1600 and 1900.
The British Museum record describes this item as either Algonquian or Iroquoian.
Created with information from the British Museum accession record and observations made by the GRASAC research team.
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Made of 45 white wampum beads of varied lengths and diameters strung upon white thread, probably cotton.
British Museum object catalogue entry
Provenance
, Found unnumbered in the British Museum Ethnology Department's collections. It might be from an early accession, or might be associated with a later group such as the 1938.3-11 accession. ,
About This GRASAC Record
Unknown Algonquin/Haudenosaunee artist, wampum string. Currently in the British Museum, Am1982,Q.803. Item photographed and described as part of a GRASAC research trip December 2007; GRASAC item id 24977.
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).