Strings or Belts with white or purple shells. They have a message.
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For decorating on them such as the wampum belt, it is used as a belt. The wampum beads is used to make a necklace. From: Eric N.
It was a belt used to tell stories.
Strings or Belts with white or purple shells. They have a message.
The importance of wampum belts is that they were used by the Iroquois nations (Mohawk,Seneca,Cayuga,Onondaga,and the oneida,) to represent their history , treaty confirmations and much more they were made out of small cylinder beads and were used to design the illustration wampum belts recorded the path of peace between all the nations the Tuscarora joined years after so they are not on th belt
They passed wampum when it was their turn to talk
For decorating on them such as the wampum belt, it is used as a belt. The wampum beads is used to make a necklace. From: Eric N.
The wampum belt was used by the Iroquois for trade, to tell stories, etc.
-The Two Row Wampum Treaty -Wolf belt -Huron belt -Covanant belt
it was used as a belt
To symbolize what the people were like. Whom ever wore what kind of wampum belt.
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I'm all out of wampum. These dark purple shells will make the wampum necklace more valuable.
the meaning is friendship
It was a belt used to tell stories.
Strings or Belts with white or purple shells. They have a message.
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.