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Wampum, from the word “Wampumpeag” for white shell beads, was manufactured by coastal Native people for many centuries -- and play a role in a PBS documentary filmed partially in Salem.
Wampum is something we take for granted. Those small, tubular, white and purple marine shell beads, so important during the seventeenth century and after, seem to be a story already well told. Indeed, ...
Handcrafted history Narragansett jewelry a growing business at The Purple Shell G. Wayne Miller [email protected] 0:05 ...
The belt is made up of over 1,000 white and purple beads carved from hundreds of quahog shells. - Gladys Widdiss: Donald Widdiss' mother, who made pottery by hand and dried it in the sun.