The Hiawatha wampum belt tells the story of the Haudenosaunee’s legendary founding. The Hiawatha wampum belt tells the story of the Haudenosaunee’s legendary founding and wampum’s power to heal.

The strings and belts made from these beads were known as wampum. Darker beads were purple in color and were made from the edges of quahog shells. Lighter colored beads were often made from the ...

So if you see a lot of Wampum Belts, especially the older ones the more purple, the more serious the situation was. Over the centuries, the practice of making wampum beads has been handed down ...

LEWISTON – A small glass case in the Lewiston Public Library cradles centuries of history in the form of striking creamy white and deep purple beaded wampum belts. The stories ...

Some of the history she is using to build that awareness, is the ongoing search for a particular heirloom that has great value to the Wampanoag people — Metacom's wampum belt. Metacom ...

Before European colonists arrived on North American shores, the wampum belt of Long Island’s Unkechaug Indian Nation was esteemed among the nations for its quality. Now, a recently commissioned ...

FOR THE EXHIBIT INCLUDES THIS 15 MINUTE VIDEO HIGHLIGHTING THE BEAUTY AND CRAFTSMANSHIP OF THIS WAMPUM BELT, HANDMADE BY WHITES AND THE CENTERPIECE OF THE EXHIBIT. THIS IS MARSHA, WHO IS THE HERO ...

Hundreds of years after being given to European nations by Indigenous peoples from across the northeast, a collection of wampum belts have returned to Canada for the first time. Forty wampum ...