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A representation of the original Two Row Wampum treaty belt
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Wampum is a traditional shell bead of the Eastern Woodlands tribes of Native Americans. It includes white shell beads hand fashioned from the North Atlantic channeled whelk shell and white and purple beads made from the quahog or Western North Atlantic hard-shelled clam. Before European contact, strings of wampum were used for storytelling, ceremonial gifts, and recording important treaties and historical events, such as the Two Row Wampum Treaty[1][2] or The Hiawatha Belt. Wampum was also used by the northeastern Indian tribes as a means of exchange,[3] strung together in lengths for convenience. The first Colonists adopted it as a currency in trading with them. Eventually, the Colonists applied their technologies to more efficiently produce wampum, which caused inflation and ultimately its obsolescence as currency.

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Description and manufacture[edit]

The term wampum (or wampumpeag) initially referred only to the white beads which are made of the inner spiral or columella of the Channeled whelk shell Busycotypus canaliculatus or Busycotypus carica.[4]Sewant or suckauhock beads are the black or purple shell beads made from the quahog or poquahock clamshell Mercenaria mercenaria.[5]Sewant or Zeewant was the term used for this currency by the New Netherland colonists.[6] Common terms for the dark and white beads are wampi (white and yellowish) and saki (dark).[7] The clams and whelks used for making wampum are found only along Long Island Sound and Narragansett Bay. The Lenape name for Long Island is Sewanacky, reflecting its connection to the dark wampum.

The white beads are made from the inner spiral of the channeled whelk shell.

Wampum beads are typically tubular in shape, often a quarter of an inch long and an eighth of an inch wide. One 17th-century Seneca wampum belt featured beads almost 2.5 inches (65 mm) long.[4] Women artisans traditionally made wampum beads by rounding small pieces of whelk shells, then piercing them with a hole before stringing them. Wooden pump drills with quartz drill bits and steatite weights were used to drill the shells. The unfinished beads would be strung together and rolled on a grinding stone with water and sand until they were smooth. The beads would be strung or woven on deer hide thongs, sinew, milkweed bast, or basswood fibers.[8]

Origin[edit]

The term wampum is a shortening of wampumpeag, which is derived from the Massachusett or Narragansett word meaning 'white strings of shell beads'.[8][9] The Proto-Algonquian reconstructed form is thought to be (wa·p-a·py-aki), 'white strings'.[10] In New York, wampum beads have been discovered dating before 1510.[4]

The introduction of European metal tools revolutionized the production of wampum; by the mid-seventeenth century, production numbered in the tens of millions of beads.[11] Dutch colonists discovered the importance of wampum as a means of exchange between tribes, and they began mass-producing it in workshops. John Campbell established such a factory in Pascack, New Jersey, which manufactured wampum into the early 20th century.[4]

Uses[edit]

Among the Iroquois[edit]

Iroquois Chiefs from the Six Nations Reserve reading Wampum belts in Brantford, Ontario, in 1871

Wampum strings may be presented as a formal affirmation of cooperation or friendship between groups,[12] or as an invitation to a meeting.[13]

The Iroquois used wampum as a person's credentials or a certificate of authority. It was also used for official purposes and religious ceremonies, and it was used as a way to bind peace between tribes. Among the Iroquois, every chief and every clan mother has a certain string of wampum that serves as their certificate of office. When they pass on or are removed from their station, the string will then pass on to the new leader. Runners carrying messages during colonial times would present the wampum showing that they had the authority to carry the message.[14]

As a method of recording and an aid in narrating, Iroquois warriors with exceptional skills were provided training in interpreting the wampum belts. As the Keepers of the Central Fire, the Onondaga Nation was also trusted with the task of keeping all wampum records. Wampum is still used in the ceremony of raising up a new chief and in the Iroquois Thanksgiving ceremonies.[15]

The wampum was central to the giving of names, in which the names and titles of deceased persons were passed on to others. Deceased individuals of high office are quickly replaced, as a wampum inscribed with the name of the deceased is laid on the shoulders of the successor, the successor may shake off the Wampum and reject the transfer of name. The reception of a name may also transfer personal history, and previous obligations of the deceased, e.g., the successor of a person killed in war may be obligated to avenge the death of the names previous holder, or care for the deceased persons family as their own.[16]

... the Iroquoians (Five Nations and Huron alike) shared a very particular constitution: they saw their societies not as a collection of living individuals but as a collection of eternal names, which over the course of times passed from one individual holder to another.[17]

Just as the wampum enabled the continuation of names and the histories of persons, the wampum was central to establishing and renewing peace between clans and families. When a man representing his respective social unit met another, he would offer one wampum inscribed with mnemonic symbols representing the purpose of the meeting or message. The wampum, thus, facilitated the most essential practices in holding the Iroquois society together.[18]

Currency[edit]

When Europeans came to the Americas, they adopted wampum as money to trade with the native peoples of New England and New York. Wampum was legal tender in New England from 1637 to 1661; it continued as currency in New York until 1673 at the rate of eight white or four black wampum equalling one stuiver, meaning that the white had the same value as the copper duit coin. The colonial government in New Jersey issued a proclamation setting the rate at six white or three black to one penny; this proclamation also applied in Delaware.[19] The black shells were rarer than the white shells and so were worth more, which led people to dye the white and dilute the value of black shells.[20]

Robert Beverley Jr. of Virginia Colony wrote about tribes in Virginia in 1705. He describes peak as referring to the white shell bead, valued at 9 pence a yard, and wampom peak as denoting specifically the more expensive dark purple shell bead, at the rate of 1 shilling and 6 pence (18 pence) per yard. He says that these polished shells with drilled holes are made from the cunk (conch), while another currency of lesser value called roenoke was fashioned from the cockleshell.[21]

The process to make wampum was labor-intensive with stone tools. Only the coastal tribes had sufficient access to the basic shells to make wampum. These factors increased its scarcity and consequent value among the European traders. Dutch colonists began to manufacture wampum and eventually the primary source of wampum was that manufactured by colonists, a market which the Dutch glutted.

Wampum briefly became legal tender in North Carolina in 1710, but its use as common currency died out in New York by the early 18th century.

Transcription[edit]

Wampum belt given to William Penn at the 'Great Treaty' in 1682

William James Sidis wrote in his 1935 history;

The weaving of wampum belts is a sort of writing by means of belts of colored beads, in which the various designs of beads denoted different ideas according to a definitely accepted system, which could be read by anyone acquainted with wampum language, irrespective of what the spoken language is. Records and treaties are kept in this manner, and individuals could write letters to one another in this way.[22]

Wampum belts were used as a memory aid in oral tradition, and were sometimes used as badges of office or as ceremonial devices in Indian cultures, such as the Iroquois. The 1820 New Monthly Magazine reports on a speech given by chief Tecumseh in which he vehemently gesticulated to a belt, pointing out treaties made 20 years earlier and battles fought since then.[23]

Recent developments[edit]

The National Museum of the American Indian repatriated eleven wampum belts to Haudenosaunee chiefs at the Onondaga Longhouse Six Nations Reserve in New York. These belts dated to the late 18th century and are sacred to the Longhouse Religion. They had been away from their tribes for over a century.[4][24]

The Seneca Nation commissioned replicas of five historic wampum belts completed in 2008. The belts were made by Lydia Chavez (Unkechaug/Blood) and made with beads manufactured on the Unkechaug Indian Nation Territory on Long Island, New York.

In 2017, a wampum belt purchased by Frank Speck in 1913 was returned to Kanesatake, where it is used in cultural and political events.[25]

The Shinnecock Indian Nation has sought to preserve a traditional wampum manufacturing site called Ayeuonganit Wampum Ayimꝏup (Here, Wampum Was Made).[26] A portion of the original site, Lot 24 in today's Parrish Pond subdivision in Southampton, Long Island, has been reserved for parkland.[27]

The Unkechaug Nation on Long Island, New York, has built a Wampum factory which manufactures traditional as well as contemporary beads for use by Native artists such as Ken Maracle, Elizabeth Perry and Lydia Chavez in their designs of traditional belts and contemporary jewelry. The factory has been in existence since 1998 and has been instrumental in the resurrection of the use of wampum in contemporary native life.

Traditional wampum makers in modern times include Julius Cook (Sakaronkiokeweh) (1927–1999),[28] and Ken Maracle (Haohyoh), a faith keeper of the Lower Cayuga Longhouse.[29]

Artists continue to weave belts of a historical nature, as well as designing new belts or jewelry based on their own concepts.[8]

See also[edit]

  • Quipu – Quechua recording devices made of knotting and dyed strings

References[edit]

  1. ^Bonaparte, Darren (2005). 'The Two Row Wampum Belt: An Akwesasne Tradition'. The Wampum Chronicles. Retrieved December 12, 2019.
  2. ^Bonaparte, Darren (August 9, 2013). 'The Disputed Myth, Metaphor and Reality of the Two Row Wampum'. The Wampum Chronicles. Retrieved December 12, 2019.
  3. ^Nick Szabo (2002). 'Shelling Out: The Origins of Money'. nakamotoinstitute.org.
  4. ^ abcdeDubin, Lois Sherr. North American Indian Jewelry and Adornment: From Prehistory to the Present. New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1999: 170-171. ISBN0-8109-3689-5.
  5. ^Wright, Otis Olney, ed. (1917). History of Swansea, Massachusetts, 1667-1917. Town of Swansea. p. 20. OCLC1018149266. Retrieved June 11, 2018.
  6. ^Jaap Jacobs. The Colony of New Netherland: A Dutch Settlement in Seventeenth-century America. Cornell University Press, 2009. pg. 14
  7. ^Geary, Theresa Flores. The Illustrated Bead Bible. London: Kensington Publications, 2008: 305. ISBN 978-1-4027-2353 -7.
  8. ^ abcPerry, Elizabeth James. About the Art of Wampum. Original Wampum Art: Elizabeth James Perry. 2008 (retrieved 14 March 2009)
  9. ^Harper, Douglas. 'Wampum'. Online Etymology Dictionary. Retrieved October 15, 2011.
  10. ^'Wampumpeag'. Dictionary.com Unabridged. Random House. Retrieved October 15, 2011.
  11. ^Otto, Paul[1] 'Henry Hudson, the Munsees, and the Wampum Revolution' (retrieved 5 September 2011)
  12. ^'The George Washington Belt'. Ganondagan.
  13. ^'Wampum Belt'. Archaeologymuseum.
  14. ^'Haudenosaunee Confederacy'. www.haudenosauneeconfederacy.com. Retrieved April 6, 2018.
  15. ^'Haudenosaunee Confederacy'. www.haudenosauneeconfederacy.com. Retrieved April 6, 2018.
  16. ^Graeber,(2001), pp. 120–122. Toward an Anthropological Theory of Value: The False Coin of Our Own Dreams. New York: Palgrave. ISBN978-0-312-24044-8.
  17. ^Graeber, David (2001), p. 120. Toward an Anthropological Theory of Value: The False Coin of Our Own Dreams. New York: Palgrave. ISBN978-0-312-24044-8.
  18. ^Graeber (2001), pp. 124–127. Toward an Anthropological Theory of Value: The False Coin of Our Own Dreams. New York: Palgrave. ISBN978-0-312-24044-8.
  19. ^Samuel Smith, The History of New Jersey p. 76
  20. ^'Wampum: Introduction'. www.coins.nd.edu. Retrieved April 6, 2018.
  21. ^Robert Beverley, The History and Present State of Virginia
  22. ^William James Sidis, The Tribes And The States: 100,000-Year History of North America
  23. ^New Monthly Magazine Vol. 14 p.522 https://books.google.com/books?id=uDoaAQAAIAAJ
  24. ^'Wampum'. Onondaga Nation. February 18, 2014. Retrieved December 12, 2019.
  25. ^Bruchac, Margaret (2018). 'Broken Chains of Custody: Possessing, Dispossessing, and Repossessing Lost Wampum Belts'. Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society. 162 (1): 97–98.
  26. ^'Ayeuonganit Wampum Ayimꝏup'. On This Site, Indigenous Long Island. October 5, 2019. Retrieved December 12, 2019.
  27. ^Young, Beth (September 13, 2014). 'Shinnecock Wampum Factory Site Preserved by Southampton Town'. East End Beacon. Retrieved December 12, 2019.
  28. ^Bonaparte, Darren. 'Sakaronhiokeweh: A Tribute to a Mohawk Wampum Belt Maker'. The Wampum Chronicles. Retrieved December 12, 2019.
  29. ^'Ken Maracle (Haohyoh)'. The Wampum Shop. Retrieved December 12, 2019.

External links[edit]

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Wampum.
Wikisource has the text of the 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica article Wampum .
  • Wampum article, Iroquois Indian Museum
  • X-ray showing inner spiral and entire shell of the Busycotypus Canaliculatus - Channeled Whelk Shell, Europa
  • 'Money Substitutes in New Netherland and Early New York', Coins, University of North Dakota
  • Wampum—Onondaga Nation
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