Wampum (Other Keyword)

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Antiquities of Charles County, Maryland (1875)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Oliver N. Bryan.

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Archeological Position of Historic Fort Corchaug, L. I., and Its Relation To Contemporary Forts (1950)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Ralph Solecki.

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Art in Shell of the Ancient Americans (1883)
DOCUMENT Citation Only William H. Holmes.

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Digging for Shells: Recovering Indigenous Wampum Technologies in Museum Collections (2017)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Margaret Bruchac.

During the salvage anthropology era, more than 400 wampum belts (woven with whelk and quahog shell beads) were removed from the hands of Native North American keepers and accessioned into museum collections. Despite the existence of a complex system of wampum diplomacy and ritual, museums often represented these belts as almost indecipherable colonial relics. The "Wampum Trail" research team (with assistance from Native knowledge-bearers and ethnographic curators) seeks to reconnect these...


Interpretive Potential of Glass Trade Beads in Historic Archaeology (1976)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Janet D. Spector.

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Meaning, Networks, and Commodity Exchange: A Geographic Information System (GIS) Inter-site Distribution and Network Analysis of Wampum Beads (2015)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Meghan Weaver.

This paper will examine the role of wampum in the globally-connected western Great Lakes fur trade, with a focus on Fort St. Joseph, in Niles, Michigan, and the fort's position on the periphery of trade activities in New France. To explore wampum's spatial and temporal boundaries, I sampled data from the archaeological findings of historic sites throughout the Northeast and Midwest regions. GIS spatial analysis provided an alternate method of processing archaeologically-recovered and historic...


Wampum’s Pre-Colonial Origins: An Indigenous Story (2020)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Kurt Jordan. Samantha Sanft.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Beyond Ornamentation: New Approaches to Adornment and Colonialism" , at the 2020 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Scholarly and popular discourse on the history of wampum emphasizes the influence and agency of Europeans – as suppliers of tools, traders, tribute-takers, and eventually as direct producers. Conceptually, many scholars view the wampum tradition as “complete” only when large numbers of white and purple marine...


Wood and Wampum: Transformative Expressions of Indigenous Power (2020)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Margaret Bruchac.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Beyond Ornamentation: New Approaches to Adornment and Colonialism" , at the 2020 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. While surveying wampum in museum collections, I encountered a unique category of ethnographic objects: Northeastern Native American wooden clubs and bowls embedded with wampum beads. These seventeenth century objects include beads that — from the obvious evidence of drilled holes and traces of fiber weft —...