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Cooper explained that wampum belt “beads” were traditionally seashells. The Cherokees were not often coastal residents, but through commerce and treaties with other tribes, the art form found its way ...

Courtesy McCord Stewart Museum Lainey has been researching wampum belts for over 20 years, and he first wrote about the Two-Dog Wampum Belt around 2007, he said, even producing a chapter on the belt. ...

The sachem’s people brought Elekens 280 yards (~256 m) of white and purple beads made from clam shells – wampum. Apparently, they hadn’t really used wampum as cash before, and even in this instance ...

It’s a huge responsibility,” he tells The Art Newspaper. An initial concept of two tectonic plates merging was scrapped in favour of a representation of wampum beads.

Wampum beads in the quahog shells they’re made from, Photo: Shane Weeks The little villages that dot the East End of Long Island are nearly 400 years old. It’s interesting to read about them and learn ...

Skawennati, Intergalactic Empowerment Wampum Belt (Onkwehón:we, Na'vi, Skyworlder, LGM, Overlord), 2017. Assorted Czech glass beads, leather, artificial sinew, nail polish.

The spry 80-year-old, a venerated member of the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians, handed a cashier a string of purple wampum beads, a traditional Indigenous currency.

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 ...