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    This document provides descriptions of various Native American artifacts from the 18th century, including wampum belts, garters, sashes, and other items. It describes the symbolic meanings and origins of several wampum belts used to represent treaties between tribes and European settlers. These belts depicted alliances, land sales, and agreements made through the 17th and 18th centuries. The document also outlines different styles of finger-woven garters, sashes, and straps worn by Northeast woodlands tribes like the Iroquois, Algonquian, and Ojibwa peoples. Images and details are provided for many individual artifacts held in museum collections.

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    18th Century Material Culture

    The Native Americans


    Belts, Garters, Sashes, Etc.

    Belts

    REPRODUCTION
    Need Illustration of Original

    The Kaswenta Wampum Belt


    Representation of the Peace Between the Haudenosaunee & the Dutch
    A Background of White Wampum Beads Represents a River
    Two Lines of Purple Wampum Beads Represent Vessels Traveling on the River
    Each Vessel Carries with it the Laws, Traditions, Customs, Languages & Spiritual Beliefs of Each Nation
    In One Vessel are the Haudenosaunee
    In the Other Vessel are the Dutch
    c. 1613
    (Haudenosaunee -Kanienkeh:ka Onkwawn:na Raotitihkwa Language and CulturalCenter. Adapted and edited by Teiow:sonte)

    Native American Wampum Belt


    Delivered by the Indians to William Penn at the Great Treaty Under the Elm Tree at Shackamaxon, in 1682
    (Pennsylvania Historical Society)

    Native American Wampum Belt


    Delivered by the Indians to William Penn at the Great Treaty Under the Elm Tree at Shackamaxon, in 1682
    (Atwater Kent Museum)

    Wampum Belt - Lenape


    Presented to William Penn, the Founder of Pennsylvania
    Confirmation of the Treaty and Sale of Land
    c. 1680s
    (National Museum of the American Indian, Washington, DC)

    REPRODUCTION
    Need Illustration of Original

    The Aionw:tha or Hiawatha Wampum Belt


    Signifying the Formation of the Iroquois Confederacy
    Mid 18th Century of Older Symbols
    Each of the 5 Nations is Represented by a Symbolic Longhouse
    On the Right: The Mohawks - Keepers of the Eastern Door
    On the Left: The Seneca - Keepers of the Western Door
    To the Second Right & Left: The Oneida & Cayuga
    In the Center: The Onondagas - The Firekeepers
    (Haudenosaunee)

    Northeast Woodlands Wampum Belt - The Jesuit Missionary Belt


    Council Hearth in Center, Lamb on the Right, Dove on the Left, Greek Crosses at the Ends Symbolizing the Trinity
    c. Late 17th Century
    (Pitt Rivers Museum)

    Northeast Woodlands Wampum Belt - The Double Calumet Treaty Belt


    Likely Relates to a Treaty Between the Huron (Wendat) Confederacy & the Tobacco (Tionontate) Nation in 1637
    (Pitt Rivers Museum)

    Northeast Woodlands Wampum Belt - The Double Calumet Treaty Belt


    Likely Relates to a Treaty Between the Huron (Wendat) Confederacy & the Tobacco (Tionontate) Nation in 1637
    (Pitt Rivers Museum)

    Northeast Woodlands Wampum Belt - The Four Nations Alliance Belt with Procured Machine Made Beads
    Records the Alliance Between the Wyandot, Ottawa, Ojibwa, and Potawatomi Tribes
    When the Wyandot Moved from Lake Superior to Detroit c. 1710 - 1720
    (Pitt Rivers Museum)

    Northeast Woodlands Wampum Belt - The Peace Path Belt


    Date Unknown - Possibly 18th Century
    (Pitt Rivers Museum)

    Northeast Woodlands Wampum Belt - Worked with 1766


    Possibly a Record of the Agreement Between William Johnson and Chief Pontiac at the End of Pontiacs War c. 1766
    (Pitt Rivers Museum)

    Northeast Woodlands Wampum Belt


    18th Century
    (Pitt Rivers Museum)

    Wampum Belt
    c. 1775 - 1800
    (Musee du Quai Branley)

    Iroquois Wampum Belt


    c. 1600 - 1800
    (The British Museum)

    Iroquois or Delaware Wampum Belt


    c. 1600 - 1820
    (The British Museum)

    Iroquois or Delaware Wampum Belt


    c. 1600 - 1820
    (The British Museum)

    Northeast Region Wampum Belt


    c. 1775 - 1800
    (Alexander Gallery - www.splendidheritage.com)

    Northeast Region Wampum Belt


    c. 1775 - 1800
    (Alexander Gallery - www.splendidheritage.com)

    Iroquoian or Algonquian Wampum Belt


    c. 1600 - 1800
    (The British Museum)

    Iroquoian or Algonquian Wampum Belt


    c. 1600 - 1800
    (The British Museum)

    Iroquoian or Algonquian Wampum Belt


    c. 1600 - 1800
    (The British Museum)

    Section of a Northeast Region Wampum Belt


    c. 1600 - 1850
    (The British Museum)

    Northeast Region, Possibly Iroquoian, Wampum Belt


    c. 1600 - 1850
    (The British Museum)

    Northeast Region, Possibly Iroquoian, Wampum Belt with Bu Colored Wool Cloth & Printed Cotton
    c. 1700 - 1800
    (The British Museum)

    Northeast Region Wampum Belt or Sash


    c. 1600 - 1830
    (The British Museum)

    Northeast Region Wampum Belt or Sash


    c. 1600 - 1830
    (The British Museum)

    Northeast Region Wampum Belt or Sash


    c. 1600 - 1830
    (The British Museum)

    Northeast Region Wampum Belt or Sash


    c. 1600 - 1830
    (The British Museum)

    Northeast, Probably Iroquois, Wampum Belt


    18th Century
    (Peabody Essex Museum)

    Northeast, Probably Iroquois, Wampum Belt


    18th Century
    (Peabody Essex Museum)

    Eastern Woodlands, Possibly Huron - Wendat, Wampum Belt


    c. 1650 - 1780
    (McCord Museum)

    Huron - Wendat, Wampum Belt


    c. 1600 - 1650
    (Museum of the American Indian - Smithsonian)

    Native American Wampum Belt


    c. 1760
    (Blair Castle)

    Eastern Woodlands Wampum Belts


    18th - Early 19th Century
    (McCord Museum)

    Eastern Woodlands Wampum Belts


    18th - Early 19th Century
    (McCord Museum)

    Native American Wampum Belt from the Leverian Museum Owned by Sir Ashton Lever (1729 - 1788)
    In an Album of 40 Watercolors Drawn by Sarah Stone c. 1780
    (The British Museum)

    Native American Wampum Belt from the Leverian Museum Owned by Sir Ashton Lever (1729 - 1788)
    In an Album of 40 Watercolors Drawn by Sarah Stone c. 1780
    (The British Museum)

    Native American Wampum Belt from the Leverian Museum Owned by Sir Ashton Lever (1729 - 1788)
    In an Album of 40 Watercolors Drawn by Sarah Stone c. 1780
    (The British Museum)

    Native American Wampum Belt from the Leverian Museum Owned by Sir Ashton Lever (1729 - 1788)
    In an Album of 40 Watercolors Drawn by Sarah Stone c. 1780
    (The British Museum)

    Garters

    Tribe of the Ojibwa-Chippewa - Eastern Ojibwa, Ottawa? Garters / Garter Pendants


    c. 1775 - 1800
    (Alexander Gallery - www.splendidheritage.com)

    Iroquoian or Algonquian Imitation Wampum Glass Bead Garter


    From the Studio of the Artist Benjamin West
    Depicted in The Death of General Wolfe
    c. 1700 - 1770
    (The British Museum)

    Algonquian Garter of Heavy Smoked Moose Skin & Quill - Wrapped Birch Bark
    From the Studio of the Artist Benjamin West
    Depicted in The Death of General Wolfe
    c. 1700 - 1760
    (The British Museum)

    Algonquian Garter of Heavy Smoked Moose Skin & Quill - Wrapped Birch Bark
    From the Studio of the Artist Benjamin West
    Depicted in The Death of General Wolfe
    c. 1700 - 1760
    (The British Museum)

    Algonquian Garter of Heavy Smoked Moose Skin & Quill - Wrapped Birch Bark
    From the Studio of the Artist Benjamin West
    Depicted in The Death of General Wolfe
    c. 1700 - 1760
    (The British Museum)

    Iroquoian or Algonquian Finger Woven Garter, Strap, or Bag Strap


    From the Studio of the Artist Benjamin West
    c. 1700 - 1770
    (The British Museum)

    Iroquois or Algonquian Loom Woven Imitation Glass Bead Garters


    From the Studio of theArtist Benjamin West
    c. 1700 - 1770
    (The British Museum)

    Iroquois or Algonquian Loom Woven Imitation Glass Bead Garters


    From the Studio of the Artist Benjamin West
    c. 1700 - 1770
    (The British Museum)

    Iroquois or Algonquian Loom Woven Imitation Glass Bead Garters


    From the Studio of the Artist Benjamin West
    c. 1700 - 1770
    (The British Museum)

    Eastern Woodlands Garters


    Collected by Lieutenant, Sir John Caldwell, Ocer of H.M. 8th Regiment of Foot c. 1774 - 1780
    (Canadian Museum of History - Speyer Collection)

    Eastern Woodlands Garters - Ojibwa or Anishnaabe


    Collected by Lieutenant, Sir John Caldwell, Ocer of H.M. 8th Regiment of Foot c. 1774 - 1780
    (Canadian Museum of History - Speyer Collection)

    Eastern Woodlands Garter


    Collected by Lieutenant, Sir John Caldwell, Ocer of H.M. 8th Regiment of Foot c. 1774 - 1780
    (Canadian Museum of History - Speyer Collection)

    Eastern Woodlands Garter - Northern Ojibwa & Cree


    Collected by Lieutenant, Sir John Caldwell, Ocer of H.M. 8th Regiment of Foot c. 1774 - 1780
    (Canadian Museum of History - Speyer Collection)

    Northeast, Possibly Algonquian, Garter or Arm Band


    From the Studio of the Artist Benjamin West
    Depicted in William Penns Treaty with the Indians (1771)
    c. 1600 - 1750
    (The British Museum)

    Iroquoian or Algonquian Finger Woven Garter or Belt


    c. 1600 - 1900
    (The British Museum)

    Native American Fingerwoven Garter from the Leverian Museum Owned by Sir Ashton Lever (1729 - 1788)
    In an Album of 40 Watercolors Drawn by Sarah Stone 1784 (In Pencil)
    (The British Museum)

    Straps

    Tribe of the Ojibwa-Chippewa Strap


    c. 1775 - 1800
    (Womack Collection - Splendid Heritage)

    Sashes

    Central Algonkian - Southern Great Lakes Sash


    c. 1775 - 1800
    (Alexander Gallery - www.splendidheritage.com)

    Finger Woven Sash of Wool, Hemp, Glass Beads, Metal Cones Porcupine Quills and Moose or Deer Hair
    c. 1775 - 1800
    (McCord Museum)

    Finger Woven Sash of Wool, Hemp, Glass Beads, Metal Cones Porcupine Quills and Moose or Deer Hair
    c. 1775 - 1800
    (McCord Museum)

    Iroquois or Mohawk Finger-woven Sash (Ceinture Flche)


    c. 1765 - 1766
    (McCord Museum)

    Native American Sash


    c. 1775 - 1800
    (The Eugene and Clare Thaw Collection of American Indian Art - Fenimore Art Museum)

    Eastern Woodlands Ceinture Flche


    Collected by Lieutenant, Sir John Caldwell, Ocer of H.M. 8th Regiment of Foot c. 1774 - 1780
    (Canadian Museum of History - Speyer Collection)

    Eastern Woodlands Sash


    Collected by Lieutenant, Sir John Caldwell, Ocer of H.M. 8th Regiment of Foot c. 1774 - 1780
    (Canadian Museum of History - Speyer Collection)

    Ojibwa Sash of Aronsen


    c. 1700 - 1750
    (Pocumtuck Valley Memorial Association, Deerfield, Massachusetts)

    Eastern Woodlands Sash


    Collected by Lieutenant, Sir John Caldwell, Ocer of H.M. 8th Regiment of Foot c. 1774 - 1780
    (Canadian Museum of History - Speyer Collection)

    Eastern Woodlands Sash


    Collected by Lieutenant, Sir John Caldwell, Ocer of H.M. 8th Regiment of Foot c. 1774 - 1780
    (Museum of Fine Arts, Boston)

    Native American Fingerwoven Sash with Beads from the Leverian Museum Owned by Sir Ashton Lever (1729 - 1788)
    In an Album of 40 Watercolors Drawn by Sarah Stone c. 1780
    (The British Museum)

    Wristbands

    Northeastern Quahog Shell Wampum Wristbands (Iroquois)


    c. 1775 - 1800
    (Alexander Gallery - www.splendidheritage.com)

    Northeastern Quahog Shell Wampum Wristbands (Mohawk)


    18th Century
    (Muse du quai Branly)

    Necklaces

    North American Wampum Bead Ornament


    Possibly Ottawa or Algonquian
    c. 1700 - 1820
    (The British Museum)

    North American Wampum Bead Ornament


    Possibly Ottawa or Algonquian
    c. 1700 - 1820
    (The British Museum)

    North American Wampum Bead Ornament


    Possibly Ottawa or Algonquian
    c. 1700 - 1820
    (The British Museum)

    North American Wampum Bead Ornament


    Possibly Ottawa or Algonquian
    c. 1700 - 1820
    (The British Museum)

    Northeast Region Wampum Necklace


    c. 1775 - 1800
    (Alexander Gallery - www.splendidheritage.com)

    Eastern Woodlands Shell Gorget


    c. 1750
    (Pocumtuck Valley Memorial Association, Deerfield, Massachusetts)

    Captain Bulls War Party, Recreated

    x
    Eastern Woodlands, Iroquois or Mohawk, Necklace
    c. 1780 - 1800
    (McCord Museum)

    Eastern Woodlands String of Beads


    c. 1560 - 1630
    (McCord Museum)

    x
    Eastern Woodlands, Possibly Iroquois, Wampum String of Beads
    c. 1765 - 1830
    (McCord Museum)

    x
    Eastern Woodlands, Huran - Wendat, Wampum String of Beads
    1791
    (McCord Museum)

    x
    Eastern Woodlands Wampum Necklace
    1791
    (McCord Museum)

    x
    Abenaki Chain of Glass & Stone Beads, Catlinite, & Sinew
    c. 1760 - 1850
    (McCord Museum)

    Eastern Woodlands Rosary Beads


    c. 1765 - 1830
    (McCord Museum)

    Eastern Algonquian Wampum Belts & Strings


    From the Collection of Josiah Harmar, Brigadier General to the United States Army
    Commander of the Northwest Territory from 1784 - 1791
    (Clements Library)

    Native American Pipestone Bead


    c. 1690 - 1770
    (The Eugene and Clare Thaw Collection of American Indian Art - Fenimore Art Museum)

    Trade Beads from Coweeta Creek (Cherokee) Qualla Phase


    18th Century
    (University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill

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