She has been designing jewelry made with quahog shells. By Jill Newman. Feb. 26, 2025. ... which they fashioned into beads called wampum to adorn ceremonial garments and, later, ...

Vendors will offer a wide array of products, like sweetgrass, handcrafted Zuni and Navajo silver jewelry, Wampum jewelry, beadwork, Kachina dolls, pottery, and leatherwork.

On True Detective: Night Country, Reis stars opposite Jodie Foster as Trooper Evangeline Navarro, a Iñupiat and Dominican state trooper who is haunted by a missing woman case that was never ...

Wampum jewelry is prized for its beauty, and cultural artisans utilize new skills and technology to imbue each shell and bead with story and culture.

The 2023 Lowell Folk Festival (July 28-30) expects to welcome as many as 150,000 visitors to 3 days of music, dance, crafts, food, and family fun, celebrating a diverse range of folk arts. The ...

WAMPUM: Examples of Domingo Talldog Monroe’s jewelry. He says while the Iroquois got the credit for trading wampum it was actually the Narragansetts, Pequots and Wampanoags, along with the New York ...

Designers from Glenn Spiro to Silvia Furmanovich are turning shells into fine jewelry. By Jill Newman On a recent vacation in Careyes, Mexico, Sara Beltrán scoured the beach looking for beautiful ...

James-Perry is the first Wampanoag and first indigenous person from Massachusetts to receive the recognition, National Endowment for the Arts says.

Put into jewelry form — with gold and sterling silver — it's stunning. You can get one at Cape Cod Jewelers for $145 or by visiting the storefront at 366 Main St., Hyannis. A taste of the sea ...

“The Art of the Contemporary Indigenous Experience” will consist of work by Indigenous artists in visual art media such as painting and prints, and traditional Native crafts such as wampum ...

Wampum is to northeastern Indigenous jewelry as turquoise is to Native jewelry of the southwest. Topping the list of the most recognized Aquinnah wampum jewelry makers are Berta Welch and Widdiss.

First Nations people made a variety of things with beads, including breastplates, jewelry, pouches, dolls and clothing. ... They were used for currency and also made into wampum belts.