Wampum Tuskshell – A name used in early trade ... according to 19th-century accounts compiled by ethnologist Washington Matthews. The shells remained valuable for years, even as glass beads and ...

Wampum (a quahog shell bead) is not a monetary currency, though it’s often been mischaracterized as such. Rather, it is representative of a familial bond formed in the exchange between ...

Jason Widdiss: Donald Widdiss' son, who is also a wampum artist ... is made up of over 1,000 white and purple beads carved from hundreds of quahog shells. - Gladys Widdiss: Donald Widdiss ...

which is used to make traditional shell beads called wampum beads, the city said. “The juxtaposition reminds us that there is more than one way of looking at things,” Cambridge’s “Native ...

Curator of the McCord Museum’s Indigenous cultures collection, Jonathan Lainey says discussions began following last years Wampum: Beads of Diplomacy exhibit ... The belt, is complete with thousands ...

The Indians were accustomed to spitting on strings of blue wampum and rubbing the shell beads vigorously to make sure that they were the hearts of genuine quahog clamshells and weren’t just ...

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 ...

Jonathan Lainey, a curator at the McCord Stewart, was working on an exhibit of wampum belts, which are made of shell beads and used in ceremonies, or exchanged for diplomatic purposes between ...

The exchange was deeded with a wampum belt, made from purple and white beads cut from clam shells to signify agreements. It was a bright spot in Pennsylvania history before the relationship with ...

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 ...

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 ...