This is a beautiful wampum belt which I recently completed in the traditional style using a heavy hemp cording as the warp, and a sinew as the weft securing locking each bead tightly into place. I made this wampum belt from an example in the book "Wampum Belts of the Iroquois". Thebelt signifies the freindship between Great Britain and the kings loyal allies the Iroquois.

The beads used for this belt are perfect examples of 18^th century glass wampum trade style beads produced from the original machines in Czech. These exact beads were purchased from Turkey Foot Trading Company and have a matte finish to them.

This belt measures 2 3/8 inches in width by 25 inches in length. The cording left at the ends is about 4 1/2 inches in length. The belt is 8 beads tall. It could be used for purely decoration or in reenacting 18^th century colonial Woodland Indian impressions. It could also be used in reenacting as a ceremonial belt. Often they were worn around the neck.

These wampum beads come from the Czech Republic and were produced on the same machines as their 18th century counterparts.

Please email me for any other information you may need on this belt, or for information on custom work. I have a large collection of other belts and woodland crafts on my ebay store: ART OF AMERICA PAST GALLERY under the category "Historic Wampum Belts / Beadwork". Under "Frontier Art" you will find many of my paintings and limited edition prints. Several were used as covers on The National Muzzle Loading Rifle Associations’s publication MUZZLE BLASTS.