The image below is known as "The Great Chain" or "Covenant Belt" and is from the late 1700's.
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What is your name(s)?
What do you see in this design? Note all of your observations about what the belt looks like.
Count the number of people shown in the belt's design. Remembering what you learned in social studies, what significance does this number have in Colonial History?
What could the belt be meant to show?
How is wampum similar or different to what you imagined when you read Guests?