Edy photograph of Chiefs of the Six Nations explaining their wampum belts, National Anthropological Archives ... comprising the Haudenosaunee or Six Nations of the Iroquois Confederacy. Historically, ...

An Akwesasne artist making contemporary wampum belts says he thinks of strands of purple and white wampum beads as Morse code. The tubular beads made from quahog shells were used ornamentally or ...