An Ancient Wampum Belt. Share full article. Feb. 4, 1894. Credit... The New York Times Archives. See the article in its original context from February 4, 1894, Page 19 Buy Reprints.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The Two Row wampum belt on display replicates one that was presented by the Unkechaug Indian Nation of Long Island to British governors during the 1670s, the museum said.

In the 1600s, when the Wampanoag people on Cape Cod held ceremonial events, their leader, Metacom (aka King Philip), would have been a prominent stand-out, wearing an intricately fashioned wampum ...

The exhibition, called WAMPUM/OTGOÄ, runs at Ganondagan until Sept. 16, after which it will go to the McCord Stewart Museum in Montreal and then back to its home, the Musée du Quai Branly in ...

It’s among the most precious wampum belts out there, but for more than a century since one man sold it – without permission from the community to which it belongs Two-Dog Wampum Belt to be ...

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 ...

Wampum belt Media/Materials Whelk shell beads (white wampum), quahog clam shell beads (purple wampum), hide thong/babiche, cordage Techniques Loom beadwork Dimensions 95.00 x 15.00 x 1.50 cm Place ...