Reading the Wampum

Since the fourteenth century, Eastern Woodlands tribes have used delicate purple and white shells called ""wampum"" to form intricately woven belts. In Reading the Wampum, Kelsey provides the first academic consideration of the ways in which these sacred belts are reinterpreted into current Haudenosaunee tradition.

Incepand cu secolul al XIV-lea, triburile Woodlands de Est au folosit cochilii delicate violet si alb numite „„ wampum ”„ pentru a forma curele tesute in mod complicat. In Reading the Wampum, Kelsey ofera prima consideratie academica a modurilor in care aceste centuri sacre sunt reinterpretate in traditia actuala Haudenosaunee.