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Wampum Belt native American

$ 41.18

Availability: 100 in stock

Description

These
belts
are
used
as a guide to narrate history, traditions and laws, The origins of
wampum
beads can be traced to Aiionwatha, commonly known as Hiawatha at the founding of the League of Five Nations.
Wampum
are traditional shell beads of the Eastern Woodlands tribes of the indigenous people of North America.
Wampum
include the white shell beads fashioned from the North Atlantic channeled whelk shell; and the white and purple beads made from the quahog, or Western North Atlantic hard-shelled clam.  This is a genuine Wampum Belt.  It is brown and black leather.  It measures:
25" L x 2" W x 1/2" D