Photographs (left to right): Suwannee River Park Live Oaks, Florida; Burgess Falls, Tennessee; Suwannee River Park Live Oaks, Florida

Wampum Belt Archive

Post Office Poster

Wampum Money Messenger

poster

USPO Poster 1934

Belt creation based on image on the poster

Richard D. Hamell 04/26/2023

 

 

 

Original Size:

Columns: 201. Rows: 9.

Beaded length: 27.0 inches. Width 4.5 inches. Total length with fringe: 51 inches.

Beads:

Polymer Beads. Total 1,530 beads

Materials:

 

Description:

The message portrays a popular mistruth-wampum used by the Native population as money. It was done so by the colonizers. The truth shown in the posters was wampum carried a message encoded witht the nmemoics woven on the belt.