Details
Contributor F. Bourquin & Co., printer.
Title The belt of wampum delivered by the Indians to William Penn at the "Great Treaty" under the Elm Tree at Shackamoxon in 1682. "Not Sworn to and never Broken." [graphic] : Presented by Granville John Penn Esq of England / F. Bourquin & Co., lith.
Publisher [Philadephia]: Historical Society of Pennsylvania
Date [ca. 1857]
Physical Description 3 prints: lithograph, tinted with two stones; 34 x 102 cm. (13.25 x 40 in.) or smaller.
Description Near life-size depiction of the belt made from oyster-shell beads and leather that purportedly the Delaware Indians gave to William Penn at the signing of the treaty. The belt was given by Penn's great-grandson to the Historical Society of Pennsylvania in 1857.
Notes Not in Wainwright.
Two of the prints are varnished.
Philadelphia on Stone
POSP 14
Historical Society of Pennsylvania: Bc 69 L 567
Subject Penn, William, 1644-1718 -- Associated objects.
Wampum belts -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Penn's treaty with the Indians, 1682.
Genre Lithographs -- Tinted -- 1850-1860.
Location Historical Society of Pennsylvania | HSP Bc 69 L 567