Photographs (left to right): Florida State Caverns, Mariana, Florida; Little Talbot Beach, Florida; Florida State Caverns, Mariana, Florida

Wampum Belt Archive

Iroquois Belt

NYSM 37421

Beauchamp 1901 #240

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The Great Law of Peace is shared from generation to generation through oral tradition using a series of wampum belts, held by the confederacy, to help to share the story.

Purchased by the institution in 1898, collected by Paige Richmond from the Onondaga, the same year earlier. Repatriated to the Haudenosaunee Council 1989.

Reference:

http://pinterest.com/pin/61783826108974604/

Stolle, Nickolaus. 2016. Talking Beads: The history of wampum as a value and knowledge bearer, from its very first beginnings until today. Hamburg, Germany. ISSN 1437-7837