Bead Currency (wampum)

Native American , Eastern Woodlands

1750-1850

Titles Bead Currency (wampum) (Descriptive)
Medium quahog clam shell and whelk shell beads, and thread
Credit Line Collection of the Art Fund, Inc. at the Birmingham Museum of Art; Gift of George W. Ritchey and June S. Ritchey, AFI.71.2014
Object Name bead currency
Classification Exchange Media

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To the loop is attached a string of beads on a buckskin thong. There are twenty three spherical blue, eight spherical red, four large blue angular, six small blue angular; one piece of pearl from a knife handle

Crown of feathers, ermine pieces, and two eagle claws.

Basket, Probably Northwest Coast, Native American, grass fiber

Pot, Maria Montoya Martinez, Native American, ceramic

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