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Photographs (left to right): All Letchworth State Park, New York
Wampum Belt Archive
Mohawk Covenant Belt
(also called the Two Row or Two Path Belt)
Original - NMAI Cat. #175205.000
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Description:
This is a covenant belt and was an early treaty belt with the English, the agreement being that both parties should travel by separate but parallel
paths (the two stripes of purple beads), the Indian by canoe and the white man by his boat, neither interfering with the other except in the case of murder or robbery. Brantford Reserve, Ontario, Canada
Reference:
National Museum of the American Indian.
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