Davenport, Cyril, 1848-1941 · London : Constable · leaf 26
e. The wampum belts of North America were primarilyused as money, but they were also made sometimes in sucha way that they formed historical records. The true Six Nation wampum belts were made oflittle white and purple cylinders of shell very laboriouslycut, and the purple ones very difficult to… … 14 THE BOOK: ITS HISTOEY AND DEVELOPMENT. strips of leather, and the design shows sometimes inpurple on a white ground and sometimes in white on apurple ground. The designs are sometimes easy to decipher, like the beltwhich typifies the Iroquois League, showing the one heartof the ruling nation in…
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