Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Historical accounts suggest that the garment hung down several feet from his shoulders, interwoven with designs that represented ...

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 wampum ...

Paula Peters and Linda Coombs gently unravel the community wampum belt they helped create, revealing 3,570 wampum beads, which bind together to give life to powerful totems like the whale, turtle, ...

Today, I had the good fortune of attending a reception at Shelburne Museum with loads of fancy dignitary types. I am not a fancy dignitary, but I am tres importante member of the media and thus I got ...

LEWISTON – A small glass case in the Lewiston Public Library cradles centuries of history in the form of striking creamy white and deep purple beaded wampum belts. The stories behind these sacred ...

BUFFALO, N.Y. -- Among indigenous peoples across America and Canada there is outrage and a strong activist movement provoked by what they consider the destructive ongoing violations of the 400 ...

Hundreds of years after they were given as gifts to Europeans by indigenous people of the Northern Woodlands, a collection of wampum belts, beads and artifacts are again in traditional Haudenosaunee ...

A symbolic belt will be brought by water to the American side of the St. Regis Mohawk Reservation Saturday and housed at the Akwesasne Museum. A wampum belt, named for the type of shell beads used to ...

IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. FROM CARD: "OLD WAMPUM MADE OVER IN ...