Praticle control with pump limiters and divertors has been successfully demonstrated in a number of present-day tokamaks. In a heliotron/stellarator configuration, plasma flows to the wall in distinct flux bundles, often called “divertor stripes”. This complicated three-dimensional characteristic of the plasma edge presents a new challenge for active particle control systems such as pump limiters and divertors. The experiment described here has obtained data with an instrumented pumped particle collector that is located in the “natural” magnetic divertor stripe of Heliotron-E. The particle collector consists of a moveable graphite assembly with single-sided particle collection and active pumping By scanning the particle collector assembly through the plasma edge of Heliotron-E, the divertor stripe is observed to be about 2–3 cm (fwhm) in width, and pressure rises of 0.1–0.2 mTorr are observed in the particle collector pumping chamber. These measurements have demonstrated that particles leaving the bulk plasma via the divertor stripes can be collected and provide a basis for developing a divertor scheme for particle control in helical systems. Modeling of the Heliotron-E magnetic configuration at the plasma edge is used to determine the collection efficiency of the particle collector in the divertor stripes. The modelling is further extended to describe a helical divertor concept.