Reading the wampum: essays on hodinöhsö:ni' visual code and epistemological recovery
Auteur :
Kelsey, Penelope Myrtle
Éditeur :
Syracuse University Press
ISBN :
9780815636656
Date de publication :
12 sept. 2019
Dimensions :
22,1 x 13,7 x 1,0 cm
Poids :
280 g
Langue :
Anglais
Pays d'origine :
USA
Since the fourteenth century, Eastern Woodlands tribes have used delicate purple and white shells called "wampum" to form intricately woven belts. In Reading the Wampum, Kelsey provides the first academic consideration of the ways in which these sacred belts are reinterpreted into current Haudenosaunee tradition.