Wampum Belt Seed Bead Red
$90.00
Seed Bead Wampum Belt with Red Stripe design
This Wampum Belt Seed Bead Red is made with Seed Beads rather than Wampum Beads. The crafter used glass Seed Beads in Red and White to create a diagonal stripe design. He wove the belt on string.
This handmade glass bead Wampum Belt measures 13.5 inches long x 3 inches wide. The string fringe measures about 8 inches long. You can use this Wampum Belt Seed Bead Red as a beaded strip for clothing or accessories or add it to you beadwork collection. One of a Kind!
Native Americans who lived on the Northeast Coast created distinctive beads from the shells of the Quahog clam and Whelk snails. They called these purple and white beads wampum. Crafters strung early disc shaped wampum beads in simple strands. When tube shaped wampum beads made from shell and glass were available, they strung them together with a loom and made them into belts. Crafters created patterns by using one color bead as the background and the other for contrast. They used some of these belts to convey messages of war or peace. Wampum belts became symbols of status.
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