wampum

1 “Normally I would have a painting of the Oneida bead belt, the wampum belt, somewhere on my bike, my garment, my shoe,” he said.

2 Open a little store and use your wampum for money!

打开一个小商店和使用金钱的钱！

3 Graeber is a 50-year-old anthropologist—among the brightest, some argue, of his generation—who made his name with innovative theories on exchange and value, exploring phenomena such as Iroquois wampum and the Kwakiutl potlatch.

4 I brought some wampum from North America.

我从北美买了一些贝壳串珠。

5 The shells of the large, hard-shelled clam were used by the indigenous Narragansett people as wampum.

6 "Will a string of wampum do?" he asked, feeling under the long hair on the dog's neck, and untying a fine and variegated thread of many-colored beads, worked exquisitely.

7 That old gray colour came into his face again, and he lifted a belt from the table and studied it dreamily, picking at the wampum which glowed like a snake's skin in the sunshine.

8 Wampum was made of seashells.

贝壳串珠是用海贝壳制作的.

9 The hunter dug it out, and beneath it was a cave full of wampum.

10 “Too little value, too much time,” the criticism that Adamson says settlers leveled against wampum, still holds sway.

11 In thinking about oyster shells, Michelson reflected on the cultural history of shells in Native art, from abalone jewelry to wampum belts used for diplomacy and incorporating hundreds of tiny shells.

12 “You can sense that that’s not where they belong and that’s not where they want to be,” she said of the wampum belts, war clubs and other items she documented with her phone camera.

13 Adamson offers the example of wampum, the lengths of patterned beadwork masterfully crafted by the Wampanoag in the Northeast, which were simultaneously a medium of communication and a form of currency.

14 Many of his pieces are horizontal, recalling the forms of early panoramic art and the woven wampum belts that are a cultural touchstone of his people.

15 When I come again I will have a belt of wampum.

16 They point to the two-row wampum belt which they have sported since striking a treaty with the Dutch 400 years ago.

17 At a museum, you learn about a treaty because the intriguing beads of a wampum belt drew you in.

18 There is nothing about these dresses — in colors like pale aqua, coral, and various peony shades, and with those beautiful sleeves, that makes a bid to be liked — to ingratiate with luxury wampum.

19 At one point, the Dutch — eager to improve their profits — produced their own wampum in Holland, hoping to use it back in New Amsterdam to trade with the natives.

由于非常渴望获得利润，荷兰人一度自己在荷兰生产wampum，想在新阿姆斯特丹用它来与土著人交易。

20 Trina wears her wampum beads She fills her drawing book with line Sewing lace on widow’s weeds And filigree on leaf and vine.

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