The Canandaigua Treaty Belt,
also known as the Washington Covenant Belt



Courtesy of the Haudenosaunee (Onondaga Nation), Nedrow, New York.
Courtesy of the State Museum of New York, Albany, New York.

Length: 6 feet, 3 and 1/2 inches; width: 5 and 1/4 inches;
15 rows; about 10,000 beads

Representing a covenant of peace (Treaty of Canandaigua, l794) between the thirteen original states represented by George Washington and the Six Nations of the Iroquois represented by headmen including Joseph Brant, Mohawk.