In the 1600s, when the Wampanoag people on Cape Cod held ceremonial events, their leader, Metacom (aka King Philip), would have been a prominent stand-out, wearing an intricately fashioned wampum belt ...

In three days, the opening episode of the long-awaited new PBS special “We Shall Remain” will be nationally broadcast. As described more fully on March 27, this will be a five-part American Experience ...

Wampum is a fascinating subject: the Shinnecock people fashioned local shells into beads that became the medium of currency among northeastern native peoples, and even were used as a medium of ...

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 ...

As a child on the Poospatuck reservation in Mastic, Lydia Wallace-Chavez lived in a world shaped by the ocean and its shells. Those times of fishing, clamming and searching beaches to find shells with ...

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There is no wampum in the "Wampum World" installation now open at the Albany Institute of History & Art. There shouldn't be wampum. There can't be wampum, not any longer, not since the repatriation of ...

Q. I recently read a mention in a magazine that Native American trade beads and ornaments, called wampum, were made from sea shells. Did Native Americans in our area make and use wampum? A. Yes. It ...

Introduction : why wampum? -- Money and language -- Foreign legal tender -- Translation and conversion -- Coins on paper -- What is wampum? -- Indian giving and Willie Wampum -- Money writing -- ...

BEAUTIFUL PLACE FOR ANY FAMILY REUNION, THERE IS SOMETHING PARTICULARLY POIGNANT ABOUT THE THREE GENERATIONS OF WIDDISS FAMILY ARTISTS REUNITED HERE. IN AN EXHIBIT AT THE MARTHA’S VINEYARD MUSEUM ...