Drill for making wampum beads
National Museum of the American Indian

Drill for making wampum beads

Non-Indian · 1870-1890

Drill for making wampum beads
National Museum of the American Indian
CC0 — Public Domain
National Museum of the American Indian

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.

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