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The National Museum of the American Indian repatriated eleven wampum belts to Haudenosaunee chiefs at the Onondaga Longhouse Six Nations Reserve in New York. These belts dated to the late 18th century and are sacred to the Longhouse religion. They had been away from their tribes for over a century. [1] [24]
Navajo (Diné). Concho Belt, 1880s. The Art Institute of Chicago. A concho or concha is a typically oval silver ornament found in Native American art.Conchos are most closely associated with the Navajo people, with one of the best known forms being the concho belt.
Native American jewelry refers to items of personal adornment, whether for personal use, sale or as art; examples of which include necklaces, earrings, bracelets, rings and pins, as well as ketohs, wampum, and labrets, made by one of the Indigenous peoples of the United States. Native American jewelry normally reflects the cultural diversity ...
Hiawatha (/ ˌ h aɪ ə ˈ w ɒ θ ə / HY-ə-WOTH-ə, also US: /-ˈ w ɔː θ ə /- WAW-thə: Haiëñ'wa'tha [hajẽʔwaʔtha] [4]), also known as Ayenwatha or Aiionwatha, was a precolonial Native American leader and cofounder of the Iroquois Confederacy. He was a leader of the Onondaga people, the Mohawk people, or both. According to some ...
The belts were the original weight belts, as they added extra support to their stomachs when they were lifting heavy canoes or packets of beaver pelts, which sometimes weighed up to 600 lbs. The Spanish conquistadors used fingerwoven sashes to proclaim which command they were in, as well as to record their conquests over the Native Americans.
Native American Rugs, Blankets, and Quilts; American Indian Featherwork; The Center for Traditional Textiles of Cusco “The Mechanics of the Art World,” Vistas: Visual Culture in Spanish America, 1520-1820. "PreColumbian Textile Conference Proceedings VII" (2016) "PreColumbian Textiles in the Ethnological Museum in Berlin" (2017)