Wampum specifically is beads made from a shell. That is what wampum is. Even if I was to replicate this, it wouldn't look the same just because the nature of the shell and the beads themselves, ...

Allen Hazard of the Narragansett tribe has been making wampum, a purple and white bead, from quahogs, or hard-shell clams, for the past 40 years.

How to see, learn about, wampum: “Wampum: Stories from the Shells of Native America”: Through April 16 at Cahoon Museum of American Art, 4676 Falmouth Road (Route 28), Cotuit.

The purple edges of the quahog shell provided the material for the darker beads in wampum. (Clay Wollney) The Native Americans who once seasonally inhabited the shorelines of Staten Island came ...

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 ...

Hard-shell clam jewelry reflects history, Native regard for nature. ... Store: The Purple Shell. Sells: Wampum jewelry and more. Location: 5219 Old Post Road, Charlestown.

Shells on the floor of "Wampum World," a new exhibit of work by Renée Ridgway at the Albany Institute of History and Art (Photo by Amy Biancolli) ...

Native artists bridge past and present through creations of a Wampum belt and quahog shell jewelry. Generations of Native artistry on display in Martha's Vineyard and Dartmouth, Massachusetts.

Before European colonists arrived on North American shores, the wampum belt of Long Island’s Unkechaug Indian Nation was esteemed among the nations for its quality. Now, a recently commissioned ...

Generations of Native artistry on display in Martha's Vineyard and Dartmouth, Massachusetts. Native artists bridge past and present through creations of a Wampum belt and quahog shell jewelry ...