Handbook to the ethnographical collections . hell clam, Venusmercenaria, from which white beads were also produced. Thedrilling and polishing of such beads cost innnense were called ivampum, served largely as a currency, and weremade up into necklaces and belts, the purple l^eads being themore valuable (fig. 27). Wami^um belts were exchanged as symbolsof peace after the conclusion of hostilities, or were treasurijd up inthe tribe to commemorate particular episodes of tribal figures of men, peace-pipes, &c., were worked inwhite on purple, or vice versa, and the t
Handbook to the ethnographical collections . hell clam, Venusmercenaria, from which white beads were also produced. Thedrilling and polishing of such beads cost innnense were called ivampum, served largely as a currency, and weremade up into necklaces and belts, the purple l^eads being themore valuable (fig. 27). Wami^um belts were exchanged as symbolsof peace after the conclusion of hostilities, or were treasurijd up inthe tribe to commemorate particular episodes of tribal figures of men, peace-pipes, &c., were worked inwhite on purple, or vice versa, and the tribal Keepers of theWampum were acquainted with the meaning of every well-known wami)um belt, given to William Penn, founderof Pennsylvania, when he made a treaty with the Indians 270 AMERICA in 1682, is now preserved in Philadelphia. A wampum beltin the collection is identified as having been made by Iroquois,on account of the diagonal purple bands which are said torepresent the sloping rafters of an Iroquois house. Machine-made. Fig. 252. — Moose-antlercomb from New England, (Sloane Collection,1753.)
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