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Wampum. Traditional shell bead of the Eastern Woodlands Indigenous tribes of North America. Quahog and whelk wampum. A representation of the original Two Row Wampum treaty belt. The process to make wampum was labor-intensive with stone tools. Only the coastal tribes had sufficient access to the basic shells to make wampum.
Rai stones. A rai stone (Yapese: raay), [1] or fei stone, [2] is one of many large artifacts that were manufactured and treasured by the native inhabitants of the Yap islands in Micronesia. They are also known as Yapese stone money or similar names. The typical rai stone is carved out of crystalline limestone and shaped like a disk with a hole ...
Magatama. Magatama (勾玉, less frequently 曲玉) are curved, comma -shaped beads that appeared in prehistoric Japan from the Final Jōmon period through the Kofun period, approximately 1000 BCE to the 6th century CE. [1] The beads, also described as "jewels", were made of primitive stone and earthen materials in the early period, but by the ...
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A bead is a small, decorative object that is formed in a variety of shapes and sizes of a material such as stone, bone, shell, glass, plastic, wood, or pearl and with a small hole for threading or stringing. Beads range in size from under 1 millimeter (0.039 in) to over 1 centimeter (0.39 in) in diameter. Beads represent some of the earliest ...
The Mississippian stone statuary are artifacts of polished stone in the shape of human figurines made by members of the Mississippian culture (800 to 1600 CE) and found in archaeological sites in the American Midwest and Southeast. [1] Two distinct styles exist; the first is a style of carved flint clay found over a wide geographical area but ...
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