They would eat the meat and use the shells for wampum, or beads that were traditionally used as ceremonial gifts and later as currency. The Latin name for quahog, mercenaria mercenaria ...

The cost of the land: $1,250 worth of guns, blankets, shell-bead wampum and other goods. Catheryna was the sole heir to her father’s portion of the patent. Growing up, Catheryna lived in a stone ...

How Indigenous currencies—including wampum and dentalium shells, beads, and the cryptocurrency MazaCoin—have long constituted a form of resistance to settler colonialism. Indigenous Currencies ...

Almost fifty years ago, when Haraldur Sigurdsson first came to the University of Rhode Island from Iceland, he got interested ...

In order to address that problem, Dr. Luke Woodford and colleagues at Scotland's University of Stirling looked to microplastic beads. More specifically, they looked to spherical steel-screen cages ...

They found evidence of past habitation—such as broken pottery, shell beads, and stone tools—across 65 percent of the islands. Oyster shells were strewn over a quarter of them. While the ...

the latter choosing to decorate theirs with pearls and real shells. When it comes to finding the right charm necklace, there are several pre-made versions that will instantly inject a personalized ...

Beads Made Of Entire Shells. Marginella. National Museum of Natural History Object Details Donor Name W. W. Adams Record Last Modified 31 Jul 2020 Specimen Count 50 Accession Date 1894 Accession ...

Brock University's main campus. Pauline Dawson has been elected to Brock’s Board of Trustees as a member of ongoing staff. Dawson, Director of Admissions in the Office of the Registrar, will serve a ...