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Native Prospects, at the Farnsworth Art Museum, infuses the American landscape tradition with Indigenous perspective ...
Lauryn French and Trinity Goombi of the Delaware Nation of Oklahoma (Lenape) purify themselves with sage smoke at Rockaway Beach, N.Y., before gathering sacred wampum shells during an October 2021 ...
For centuries Native Americans treasured quahog shells, the purplish hard coverings of clams found along North Atlantic shores, which they fashioned into beads called wampum to adorn ceremonial ...
Native artists bridge past and present through creations of a Wampum belt and quahog shell jewelry Share Updated: 8:20 PM EST Jan 10, 2025 Infinite Scroll Enabled ...
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.
Concordia’s First Peoples Studies program offered a course this winter highlighting the cultural heritage of wampum belts and their significance in modern society. Under the guidance of Nicolas Renaud ...
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 ...
Join host Cheyenne Bearfoot on Sovereign Innovations as she uncovers a profound legacy. Join host Cheyenne Bearfoot on Sovereign Innovations as she uncovers the profound legacy of wampum beads in ...
The exhibition Wampum: Beads of Diplomacy has been on display at Montreal’s McCord Stewart Museum since October 20, 2023, and will remain on display until March 10, 2024. It brings together more than ...
Wampum belts were made from shell beads and exchanged between Indigenous nations, including European nations during diplomatic meetings. The exhibit aims to make wampum belts visible and accessible to ...
Wampum belts are made of shells - like these - that are turned into beads and woven together. (Ka’nhehsí:io Deer/CBC) "These belts… they are begging to be read," said Galban.