wampum belts

[Lancer]

Hello all,

while reading through the Conquerors by Allan Eckert, I keep reading about the war belts used by the different tribes to help incite the fighting. Does anyone know if there are any of these still in existence? I would hope that the respective tribes still have them but maybe some of them made it to museums? Just curious as I would like to see what one actually looked like from that time. Some of them were close to 7 - 10 ft according to Eckert. Must have been a pretty amazing piece of work.

 

Lance, we used to have a place called the Smithsonian where one could go and view items of this nature. In our quest for political correctness we have passed laws that required the nations museums to return the said items to the individual tribes, placing the survival of the items in jeprody and making it impossible to study the items or insure their continued provinience.

Now, any tribe can claim any item, from any museum, they believe has cultural signifigance to them, remove it from display and use, preserve, or distroy it as part of their "heritage".

People that have them in private collections ain't talking about it!

 

mmmmm i will just say i see the other side and am glad that some things have been returned to those they belong to . if they should decide that the items would be better server for all to see then thats for them to say .
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