Wampum Assignment # 1

Note: Do this assignment only after reading this web site about wampum.

The image below is known as "The Great Chain" or "Covenant Belt" and is from the late 1700's.

Images Copyright © Tara Prindle 2001, NativeTech: Native American Technology and Art. Internet URL: http://www.nativetech.org

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?

 


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This page last updated on September 27, 2001
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