Photographs (left to right): Trillium, Burgess Falls, Tennessee; Stone Mountain State Park, North Carolina; Blue Ridge Parkway, Virginia

The Wampum Belt Archive

Wampum Belts in Paintings and other Art Media

 

From the Collection of the Rochester Museum and Science Center, Rochester, NY.

Courtesy Rochester Museum and Science Center, Rochester, NY (36.356.1)

 
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Description:

The painting above entitled "The Wampum Maker" depicts Hiawatha on the shore of a great lake fashioning wampum from shells to make the first wampum belt. Artist-Ernest Smith. From the Collection of the Rochester Museum and Science Center, Rochester, NY.

Reference:

Rochester Museum and Science Center, Rochester, NY. http://libcat.rmsc.org