Photographs (left to right): Suwannee River Park, Live Oaks, Florida; Taughannock Falls State Park, New York; Burgess Falls, Tennessee
Huron Wampum Belt
Courtesy Museum of Victoria, Melbourne, Australia
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Belt image drawn by S.D.S. Huyghes at the Huron Council House at Lorette in 1848.
Belt symbolized an "open path" and was used to inaugurate a grand chief.
Reference
Australian Museum Melbourne.
The Spirit Sings. Eight wampum belt drawings and meanings. Plate 77, p. 84.
