Imagine walking the beach on the shore of Sea Gull Beach in
Yarmouth, MA and picking up broken pieces of Quahog Shells.
Dropped from the sky by the seagulls when they hit and
bounce on the shoreline they break open and the seagull eats
his meal.
These shell have been gathered by
me, soaked and cleaned of debris, ground by hand into shape.
I then wire wrap the shell into a pleasing arrangement. I
offer these Wampum Shell Pendants exclusively to you
directly from Cape Cod, Massachusetts.
As in nature not all pieces are perfect and exact, but be
assured if I would not wear this jewelry I don't expect that
you would. They have passed my approval. Each item will be
as close as possible to the pictures, but be informed that
not all computers generate the same colors and their might
be a slight difference in size, color and shape.
"Wampum is made from the Quahog Clam Shell (Mercenaria
Mercenaria), which lives in the coastal waters of
Northeastern USA.
Quahogs were used by the Native
American Indians prior to the arrival of the colonizing
Europeans for ornamentation, for use in marriage and in
other ceremonies, and as a memory aid.
Upon the arrival of the Dutch,
English, and French, Wampum was made into tubular beads and
served as one of the main sources of currency between the
Native Americans and the newly arrived European traders and
settlers.
The beads were made into purple and
white ones.
The purple beads (suckauhock) were
worth twice as much as the white beads (wompampeage) in the
most popular use of them: the trading of beads for beaver
pelts."
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