Penelope Myrtle Kelsey: 1 book

Book cover of Reading the Wampum

Reading the Wampum

Essays on Hodinöhsö:ni’ Visual Code and Epistemological Recovery

by Penelope Myrtle Kelsey
Language: English
Release Date: December 3, 2014

Since the fourteenth century, Eastern Woodlands tribes have used delicate purple and white shells called "wampum" to form intricately woven belts. These wampum belts depict significant moments in the lives of the people who make up the tribes, portraying everything from weddings to treaties. Wampum...
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