Photographs (left to right): Roanoke Island, Virginia; Oatka Creek Park, New York; Oaks Opening, New York

The Wampum Belt Archive

Wampum Belts in Paintings and other Art Media

 

Maweomi Wampum Belt

A Grand Sachem at the center of a crescent-moon Maweomi with a Covenant Chain wampum belt

in the foreground, a symbolic element that bound the Grand Council together.

From Moeurs des Sauveges Ameriquains, Joseph Francois Lafitau, 1724.

(Courtesy of the Quinnipiac Tribal Council)

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See article on Maweomi by Iron Thunderhorse.

Reference:

Quinnipiac Tribal Council: http://acqtc.org/Maweomi/Legacy08 private link