Wampum
The Native American tribe traded goods using wampum beads as currency.
The characteristics of a wampum belt is it is made out of white and purple beads and made of certain kinds of seashell's. Each string or belt holds a different message. The use of wampum stings or belts suggested the seriousness of the message and the sincerity of whoever made it. A wampum keeper was responsible for caring for the wampum and reading it. The reader would pass this hand over top of it ,bead by bead using the texture top remind him of the event or treaties it recorded. Wampum keepers were chosen by the clan they trained at a young age younger then 12 to remember the information on the belts and tell it in a dramatic and poetic way. Iroquois women made the wampum belts.
"The symbolism is quite clear. The five devices represent the five original tribes. From left to right they represent the Seneca, the keepers of the Western Door; the Cayugas, the "people of the marsh" and "keepers of the Great Pipe"; The Onondaga, who were the "name bearers" who kept the wampum belt that contained the history of the Iroquois; the Oneida, the "stone people" symbolized by the Great Tree; and lastly the Mohawk, the "keepers of the eastern door".
The address of the Wampum Area Historical Society Inc is: 3384 State Route 18, Wampum, PA 16157-3610
No, the "wampum" is completely mythical. Or is it... (it isn't)
They passed wampum when it was their turn to talk
a wampum is beads weaved {white and purple} there like scarves but with beads on them
I have a wampum card from the Mohegan Sun Casino.
1. Connect your ID to facebook for 5 wampum. 2. Invite your friend from facebok for wampum. 3. Buy it.
Wampum was money to the Native American culture...their medium of exchange.
well from what I hear they traded instead of wampum