If you want to live a long time — say, 500 years or so — and outlast nearly everybody else, you might try a little advice from the quahog, hard-shell clam whose message appears to be: Go slow. Quahogs ...

STORY OF A WAMPUM BELT.; HOW COL. ELLICOTT KILLED A TURKEY AND SAVED HIS LIFE. April 17, 1885 The New York Times Archives See the article in its original context from April 17, 1885, Page 2 Buy ...

Wampum belt Media/Materials Whelk shell beads (white wampum), quahog clam shell beads (purple wampum), hide thong/babiche, cordage, ochre Techniques Loom beadwork, colored Dimensions 107 x 13.70 x 63 ...

Cahoon Museum of American Art opens its season with wampum exhibit featuring the recreated belt lost after the death of Metacom (King Philip) ...

Curators hope the Long Island tribe's belt, commissioned by the New-York Historical Society, will show the importance of indigenous history in the region and combat misconceptions about the belt's ...

Lainey has been researching wampum belts for over 20 years, and he first wrote about the Two-Dog Wampum Belt around 2007, he said, even producing a chapter on the belt.

The wampum exhibit at Ganondagan's Seneca Art and Cultural Center is the product of an uncommon intercultural museum relationship.

Brighton, N.Y. — Our Bright Spot shines on a local school honoring different cultures. Fourth-grade students at the Harley School helped create a new wampum belt Thursday to represent their ...

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 ...

Among the objects in “Gifts of the Ocean” are four distinctive wampum belt designs that symbolize four historic Pequot periods — the era just before European contact; the Pequot War of 1636 ...

Object Type Ceremonial/Ritual items Object Name Wampum belt Media/Materials Whelk shell beads (white wampum), quahog clam shell beads (purple wampum), hide thong/babiche, cordage Techniques Loom ...