Quahogs have a long history in the state. The shells of the large, hard-shelled clam were used by the indigenous Narragansett people as wampum. The clam itself is a staple of clam chowders and in ...

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

The Wampanoag and Narragansett people greatly valued wampum, beads made from shells local to New England. Purple beads came from quahog clams, and the white beads from whelks. STEPHEN LANG ...