Reading the Wampum: Essays on Hodinöhsö:ni’ Visual Code and by Penelope Myrtle Kelsey

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By Penelope Myrtle Kelsey

because the fourteenth century, jap Woodlands tribes have used gentle crimson and white shells referred to as "wampum" to shape intricately woven belts. those wampum belts depict major moments within the lives of the folks who make up the tribes, portraying every little thing from weddings to treaties. Wampum belts can be utilized as a kind of foreign money, yet they're essentially used as a way to checklist major oral narratives for destiny generations. In studying the Wampum, Kelsey presents the 1st educational attention of the ways that those sacred belts are reinterpreted into present Haudenosaunee culture. whereas Kelsey explores the cultured attraction of the belts, she additionally presents insightful research of the way readings of wampum belts can swap our realizing of particular treaty rights and land exchanges. Kelsey indicates how modern Iroquois intellectuals and artists adapt and re-evaluate those conventional belts in new and leading edge methods. interpreting the Wampum conveys the energy and continuance of wampum traditions in Iroquois artwork, literature, and group, suggesting that wampum narratives pervade and reappear in new guises with each one new generation.

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