As the increased manufacture of wampum beads made them more common wampum spread inland as far as the Great Plains and southward to Virginia. Wampum production wasn't limited to the Native Americans.

Paula Peters and Linda Coombs gently unravel the community wampum belt they helped create, revealing 3,570 wampum beads, which bind together to give life to powerful totems like the whale, turtle ...

Wampum, beads, both light and dark are incredibly delicate and require significant time and attention in order to create. This is an old art form and the techniques, even how to make the beads.

They are separated by three beads that signified a silver chain with three links for peace, friendship and forever, Powless said. He owns a small replica and has seen the original, some 6 feet ...

The recently commissioned Two Row wampum belt, with the tools used to make it, that has been put on display at the New-York Historical Society. Credit: Wampum Magic/Lydia Chavez ...

An Ancient Wampum Belt. Share full article. Feb. 4, 1894. ... It is 30 inches long, 3 inches wide, and is made of seven cords of tow, between which are rows of innumerable beads made from shells.

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 or ...

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 or ...

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 or ...