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Bow drill for making wampum beads
From the collection of National Museum of the American Indian. Free to download, adapt and use — no permission needed.
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Used in Campbell's Wampum Factory in Pascack, New Jersey (1780s-1880s); formerly owned by John Bell of Westwood, New Jersey, whose ancestors worked in the factory; purchased by Carl F. Schondorf (1890-1949) of Paterson, New Jersey, from John Bell at an unknown date; purchased by MAI from Carl Schondorf in 1924.
National Museum of the American Indian’s own descriptionCredit lineBow drill for making wampum beads. 1870-1890. Non-Indian. National Museum of the American Indian. CC0.
