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Reading the Wampum - Essays on Hodinöhsö:ni’ Visual Code and Epistemological Recovery (Paperback)
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Reading the Wampum - Essays on Hodinöhsö:ni’ Visual Code and Epistemological Recovery (Paperback)
Series: The Iroquois and Their Neighbors
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Loot Price R501
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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 belts can
be used as a form of currency, but they are primarily used as a
means to record significant oral narratives for future generations.
In Reading the Wampum, Kelsey provides the first academic
consideration of the ways in which these sacred belts are
reinterpreted into current Haudenosaunee tradition. While Kelsey
explores the aesthetic appeal of the belts, she also provides
insightful analysis of how readings of wampum belts can change our
understanding of specific treaty rights and land exchanges. Kelsey
shows how contemporary Iroquois intellectuals and artists adapt and
reconsider these traditional belts in new and innovative ways.
Reading the Wampum conveys the vitality and continuance of wampum
traditions in Iroquois art, literature, and community, suggesting
that wampum narratives pervade and reappear in new guises with each
new generation.
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