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Black and Red Bugle Bead

Black and Red Bugle style bead

L2024.3.200

Blue Translucent Bead

Blue translucent bead

L2024.3.202

Collar

Net-beaded collar

L2024.3.129

Cuff

Beaded epaulet or coat cuff from men's coat. Brown fabrice with three, trilobate designs, each surrounded by simple scrolls. Zig-zag border.

L2024.3.144

This epaulet or coat cuff seems a bit earlier than the other beaded items in the Abenaki Cultural Conservancy collection. It sports a close relative of the coeval double scroll designs to the east; and has the distinctive Wabanaki trilobate design in the center of the arcing pinnate scrolls.

Dutch Duelff Bead

Dutch Duelff pattern bead

L2024.3.197

This was an amazing discovery; these beads are very distinct with a trail of molten blue glass making a design on a heated white bead background. Bead collectors that I have talked to told me that most went to Africa and Asia, almost never here. So this is an interesting geographic anomaly.

Dutch Swirl Bead

Dutch Swirl pattern bead

L2024.3.193

Epaulet

Coat epaulet

L2024.3.132

Epaulets

Pair of beaded, epaulets for a man's coat. Central quatrefoil in red and white flanked by green and yellow scrolls and yellow and blue flowers.

L2024.3.142a-b

These beaded “Wabanaki Quatrefoil” Epaulets seem a bit later than the other beaded items in the Abenaki Cultural Conservancy collection. The central quatrefoils are identical in color and construction to those found on a pair of moccasin vamps with a Waterville, Vermont provenance. Unfortunately, many of the other stylistic details such as bugle-beaded scrolls and the blue and yellow flowers are unlike other regional items from the period.

Faceted Bead

Faceted bead

L2024.3.196

Green Heart Bead

Green heart pattern bead

L2024.3.199

Green Heart Bead

Green Heart pattern bead

L2024.3.194

Green Heart Bugle Bead

Green Heart pattern bugle bead

L2024.3.203

Green Heart Bugle Bead

Green heart pattern bugle bead

L2024.3.198

Headband

Black, white, and blue beaded headband.

L2024.3.165

This is a beautiful loom-woven beaded headband with white and blue designs reminiscent of the Wabanaki Confederacy double scroll. There is nothing diagnostic about it at all. It was given to Frederick Wiseman at the 1996 Heritage Days Pow Wow by an older Abenaki man who said that it was worn by his mother “many years ago,” which may have put it back before the 1970 Missisquoi Renaissance.

Moccasin Cuff

Fabric decorated with geometric beadwork. Black, white, green, and purple beads.

L2024.3.131

This object is tiny but is one of the few surviving pieces of late 18th century Wabanaki beadwork, and has a Swanton, Vermont provenance. It was found in the wall of a 19th century Swanton house being demolished in the early 1900’s. Ex. Ben Gravel Collection.

Moccasin Vamp

Beaded, fabric moccasin vamp (top of foot). Design includes light blue and dark blue quatrefoil motif with green, spiral motif nearer the toe. Edged in black and white beading.

L2024.3.145

This single Moccasin vamp, with quatrefoil motif and tipped lines was found in Norwood, NH. It has a couple other regionally diagnostic motifs such as the two-color radiating lines and the green twisted outline beadwork.

Nueva Cadiz Bead

Nueva Cadiz pattern bead

L2024.3.206

Usually associated with the Spanish trade

Red Pound Bead

Red Pound pattern bead

L2024.3.201

Shirt Panel

Red fabric with beaded flower and leaf design surrounded by blue zig-zag border.

L2024.3.125

White Biconical Bead

White Biconical bead

L2024.3.205

White Pound Bead

White pound pattern bead

L2024.3.195

White Pound Bead

White Pound pattern bead

L2024.3.204