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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.
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MaxineThe original meaning of the word "wampum" is "white strings [of beads]," but a wampum belt, despite its name, can contain any mixture of purple and white beads arranged in rows. The beads, cylindrical and about 1/4th inch in length, are carved from shells. The shell of the quahog (hard clam) provides purple beads; the white come from the shell of the whelk.
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What did the designs on wampum record?
You mean wampum belts, not wampum which simply refers to the shell beads from which belts were made (the Wampanoag word Wampumpeag = small white shell beads).Wampum belts were not produced until after contact with Europeans, so it is likely that they were influenced by European writing and documents; since they natives could not write they recorded important events such as treaties or agreements in pictorial (pictographic) form on wampum belts.The link below takes you to an image of Tsawanhohi holding a wampum belt, 1825:
What did Native Americans use a wampum for?
it could be used for,storytelling,adding on to history,asking for marrige,gifts,to show an agreement between two groups of people,and to declare a war or reuest peace between two groups. I'm glad i helped
Shell belts used as money were called what?
Shell belts used as money were called wampums -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- While the Native people did not use wampums as money originally, when Europeans came to the Americas, they realized the importance of wampum to Native people and soon, they were trading wampum shells with the native peoples of New England and New York. The New England colonies demonetized wampum in 1663, but it continued as currency in New York until 1673. Other cultures also used shells as money - see the related link below.
The designs on the wampum recorded?
important events, treaties and agreements
Quick facts about Eastern Woodland Indians?
lived in eastern USA and CANADAthey tended to live near waterthey created the dream catcher: catches bad spirits in your dreamsplayed a game similar to lacrossethey clustered their houses around a central squarethey got their food by hunting, fishing, and gathering fruits, berries , and nutsthey made traps for small animalsthey made nets and traps for fishduring hard times , when there was almost no food they'd chew their clothes or boil their mocassins in soupTHIS IS IMPORTANT: wampum was important to their culture.wampum belts and necklaces were made from wampum beads, which are actually white and purple shells. it was used as money between white men and Indians.they were also used as a form of communication between Indian tribes.wampum belts were made in pictures to show why it was made. one always wore a wampum belt while visiting another tribe.
