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Photographs (left to right): Sunset, Albuquerque, New Mexico; Silver Pennies, Rush, New York; Tent Rocks National Monument, New Mexico
Wampum Belt Archive
Wyandot Methodist Church Return
Original: R D Hamell
August 20 2019
Original Size: |
Columns: 191. Rows: 11. Beaded length: 30.3. Width: 5.5 inches. Total length w/fringe: 78.8 inches |
Beads: |
2,101 Beads and 28 half beads |
Materials: |
Warp: deer leather. Weft: artificial sinew. |
Description:
he symbolism of the 3 set of stripes on the left (collectively incorporating 7 generations). The Seven Generations of Ancestors are symbolized by the 7 burial mounds to the left of the Wyandot.
The checkered white pattern on the right represent the Ohio waterways.
The skewed rectangles on left represent the Wyandot cemeteries of seven generations on.
The Wyandot to the left of the modern stone church shown in three dimensions is offering a wampum belt
which is beaded with ancestral shell wampum (1650’s) to the Methodist minister to the right of the church.
Harrison, Daniel. 2018. Personal Communications. Henry Ford College, Dearborn, Michigan
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