Dans Musée du quai Branly Jacques Chirac
par Núñez-Regueiro, Paz ; Stolle, Nikolaus
Gradhiva
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Wampum. Beads of Diplomacy in New France
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- Early-17th-century North America saw small cylindrical seashell beads, known as wampum, come into use as tokens of exchange between Native Americans and European incomers. Wampum, used by Indigenous nations for social and political purposes as well as for adornment, embodied considerable exchange value well before the first contact with Europeans. The beads used in this early period were made from white shells found along the Atlantic coast, as far south as the Gulf of Mexico; they remained ...
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