This is a beautiful wampum belt which I recently completed in the traditional style using a heavy weight hemp cording as warp, and a sinew as the weft securing locking each bead tightly into place. I made this wampum belt from an original in the book "Wampum Belts of 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.

This belt measures 3 inches in width by 22 inches in length. The belt is 6 beads tall. It could be used for purely decoration or in reenacting 18^th century colonial Woodland Indian impressions.

This is an exact reproduction of the historic Welcome or Hospitality Belt. This belt recorded certain laws of the Confederation and was used by the presiding Chief to welcome Leage members and members of other nations.

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 "Woodland 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.