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Do Algonquian Indians use the wampum belts?
no
How did the Iroquois use wampum belts?
The Iroquois used wampum belts to tell things about the past. They were also used to remind people of the Great Peace.
What did Native Americans use a wampum for?
Wampum belts were used by some tribes as a form of money. They were traded for goods or services. More importantly, however, is that the wampum belts were also mostly sacred records of a persons family.
What was the importance of wampum belts to the Iroquois identity?
they are purple
Why is wampum important to Native Americans?
Wampum was important to SOME American Indian. Some northeastern tribes used wampum belts as a monetary system to trade for furs or whatever was valued at the time. More importantly, those wampum belts would tell the family history of the maker.
How do Wampum belts address collective identity?
it address's proplems
What did the Iroquois invent?
The Iroquois people invented wampum belts
What are the characteristics of wampum belt?
The characteristics of a wampum belt is it is made out of white and purple beads and made of certain kinds of seashell's. Each string or belt holds a different message. The use of wampum stings or belts suggested the seriousness of the message and the sincerity of whoever made it. A wampum keeper was responsible for caring for the wampum and reading it. The reader would pass this hand over top of it ,bead by bead using the texture top remind him of the event or treaties it recorded. Wampum keepers were chosen by the clan they trained at a young age younger then 12 to remember the information on the belts and tell it in a dramatic and poetic way. Iroquois women made the wampum belts.
What did the designs on wampum record?
You mean wampum belts, not wampum which simply refers to the shell beads from which belts were made (the Wampanoag word Wampumpeag = small white shell beads).Wampum belts were not produced until after contact with Europeans, so it is likely that they were influenced by European writing and documents; since they natives could not write they recorded important events such as treaties or agreements in pictorial (pictographic) form on wampum belts.The link below takes you to an image of Tsawanhohi holding a wampum belt, 1825:
What is the wampum belt?
Strings or Belts with white or purple shells. They have a message.
Why was the wampum belts important to the Iroquois?
becuse they are fuckings wild indians
What is wampum belt?
Strings or Belts with white or purple shells. They have a message.
