Following is a transcript of the video. Narrator: Cracking a quahog shell with a deer antler is the first step in creating wampum beads and jewelry. But today, Native American artist Allen Hazard ...

Wampum specifically is beads made from a shell. That is what wampum is. Even if I was to replicate this, it wouldn't look the same just because the nature of the shell and the beads themselves ...

The purple edges of the quahog shell provided the material for the darker beads in wampum. (Clay Wollney) The Native Americans who once seasonally inhabited the shorelines of Staten Island came ...

The story Powless' father told him decades ago held that the agreement was enshrined years after the initial encounter with a wampum belt that includes two rows of purple clam shell beads.

NARRATOR: The Haudenosaunee story of creating the first American democracy is encoded in this, a tapestry of sacred shell beads called a wampum belt. HILL: If you look at the structure of it ...

KINGSTON, N.Y., Feb. 3 -- A wampum belt which played a prominent ... between which are rows of innumerable beads made from shells. View Full Article in Timesmachine » Advertisement ...

While the different patterns of a wampum belt, which is usually draped over the shoulder, can be read, the colors of the beads can also be an indicator of where the shells come from. Museum ...

An Akwesasne artist making contemporary wampum belts says he thinks of strands of purple and white wampum beads as Morse code. The tubular beads made from quahog shells were used ornamentally ...