Mashantucket Pequot Research Library

Wampum

A Bibliography

 

 

Beauchamp, William Martin. Aboriginal Chipped Stone Implements of New York. Albany: University of the State of New York, 1897.

RESEARCH RARE: Q 11 .N82 1897

 

Becker, Marshall. A Penobscot Wampum Belt in the Vatican Museums: A Possible Nineteenth Century Example of Native American Diplomacy. Vatican City: Monumenti, Musei e Gallerie Pontificie, 2004.

STACKS: E 99 .P5 B435 2004

 

Bherer, Harold. Wampum and Letters Patent: Exploratory Study of Native Entrepreneurship. Halifax, NS: Institute for Research on Public Policy, 1990.

STACKS: E 78 .C2 B4913 1990

 

Bonaparte, Darren. Creation & Confederation: The Living History of the Iroquois. Ahkwesasne Mohawk Territory: Wampum Chronicles, 2006.

STACKS: E 99 .I7 B663 2006

 

Bradford, William. Of Plimoth Plantation. New York: Knopf, 1952.

READING ROOM: Local History: F 68 .B8073 1952

 

Burggraf, James. "Some Notes on the Manufacture of Wampum Prior to 1654." The Second Coastal Archaeology Reader: 1900 to the Present. Readings in Long Island Archaeology and Ethnohistory Vol. V. Lexington, MA: Suffolk County Archaeological Association, 1982.

READING ROOM: Local History E 78 .N7 S43 1982

 

Ceci, Lynn, "The First Fiscal Crisis in New York." The Second Coastal Archaeology Reader: 1900 to the Present. Readings in Long Island Archaeology and Ethnohistory Vol. V. Lexington, MA: Suffolk County Archaeological Association, 1982.

READING ROOM: REF E 78 .N7 S43 1982

 

________. "Native Wampum as a Peripheral Resource in the Seventeenth-Century Word-System." The Pequots in Southern New England, The Fall and Rise of an American Indian Nation. Norman, OK: University of Oklahoma Press, 1990: 48-63.

READING ROOM: REF E 99 .P53 P47 1990

 

________. "Tracing Wampum's Origins."  Proceedings of the 1986 Shell Bead Conference: Selected Papers. Research Records No. 20. Rochester, NY: Museum and Science Center, 1989.

READING ROOM: REF E 59 .B43 S54 1986

 

________. "The Value of Wampum among the New York Iroquois: A Case Study in Artifact Analysis." Journal of Anthropological Research 38/1 1982: 97-107.

MULTIMEDIA: Microfilm

 

Clarke, Noah T. "The Wampum Belt Collection of the New York State Museum." New York State Museum Bulletin 288 Albany: The University of the State of New York, 1931: 85-121.

READING ROOM: Local History: E 98 .C8 C588 1931

 

Coles, Robert R. "Wampum was More than Money."  The Second Coastal Archaeology Reader: 1900 to the Present. Readings in Long Island Archaeology and Ethnohistory Vol. V. Lexington, MA: Suffolk County Archaeological Association, 1982.

STACKS: E 78 .N7 S43 1982

 

Einhorn, Arthur. "Iroquois-Algonquin Wampum Exchange and Preservation in the Twentieth Century." Man in the Northeast 7 1974: 71-86.

STACKS: Serials

 

Fenton, William N 2. "Wampum, the Magnet that Drew Furs from the Forest." The Great Law and the Longhouse. Norman, OK: University of Oklahoma Press, 1998.

REFERENCE DESK: Article File

READING ROOM: REF E99 .I7 F453 1998

 

Fogelman, Gary L. Glass Trade Beads of the Northeast, And including Aboriginal Bead Industries: Stone – Bone - Shell - Catlinite – Cannel Coal – Teeth, Pennsylvania: Fogelman Publishing Co, 1991.

READING ROOM: Local History E 78 .E2 F75 1991

 

Hagerty, Gilbert W. Wampum, War and Trade Good, West of the Hudson. Interlaken, NY: Heart of the Lakes Pub., 1985.

STACKS: F 127 .M55 H34 1984

 

Hale, H. "Four Huron Wampum Records." The Journal of the Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland 26 1897: 221-48.

REFERENCE DESK: Article File

 

Hayes, Charles F. III. "An Introduction to the Shell and Shell Artifact Collection at the Rochester Museum and Science Center." Proceedings of the 1986 Shell Bead Conference: Selected Papers. Research Records No. 20. Rochester, NY: Museum and Science Center, 1989.

READING ROOM: REF E 59 .B43 S54 1986

 

Heuman, M. W. "Wampum as Money in Northeastern North America." Ethnohistory 3 1956: 21-33.

STACKS: Serials

 

Ingersoll, Ernest. Wampum and Its History. S.l: s.n., 1883

MULTIMEDIA: Microfilm PAH I-240

 

"Reel 50. Photographs 1-163." Iroquois Indians, a Documentary History of the Diplomacy of the Six Nations and Their League.

MULTIMEDIA: Microfilm

 

Jacobs, Wilbur R. Dispossessing the American Indian: Indians and Whites on the Colonial Frontier. Norman, OK: University of Oklahoma Press, 1985.

STACKS: E 91 .J3 1985

 

Jennings, Francis. The History and Culture of Iroquois Diplomacy: An Interdisciplinary Guide to the Treaties of The Six Nations And Their League. Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, 1985.

STACKS: E 99 .I7 H63 1985

 

________. The Invasion of America: Indians, Colonialism, and the Cant of Conquest. New York: W. W. Norton & Company, Inc., 1976.

READING ROOM: PEQUOT F 7 .J46 1975

 

de Lotbiniere, Pauline Joly."Des Wampums et des 'Petits Humains' Recits Historiques sur les Wampums Algonquins." Recherches Amerindiennes au Quebec 23/2-3, 1993: 53-68.

REFERENCE DESK: Article File

 

Mann, Barbara A. "The Fire at Onondaga: Wampum as Proto-Writing." Akwesasne Notes v.1 n.1 Spring 1995: 40-8.

REFERENCE DESK: Article File

 

Martien, Jerry. Shell Game: A True Account of Beads and Money in North America. San Francisco, CA: Mercury House, 1996.

STACKS: E 98 .M7 M73 1996

 

Michelson, G. "Iroquoian Terms for Wampum", International Journal of American Linguistics 57/1 1991: 108-16.

MULTIMEDIA: Microfilm

 

Orchard, William C. Beads and Beadwork of the American Indians. New York: Museum of the American Indian /Heye Foundation, 1975.

STACKS: E 98 .B46 073 1975

 

Pena, Elizabeth Shapiro. Wampum Production in New Netherland and Colonial New York: The Historical and Archaeological Context. Dissertations Abstracts International, 1990.

STACKS: E 98 .M7 P46 1990

 

Red Wing. "Wampum", The Narragansett Dawn July, 1935 1/3: 22.

REFERENCE DESK: Article File

 

Robinson, Paul Alden. The Struggle Within: The Indian Debate in Seventeenth Century Narragansett Country. Dissertation Abstracts, 1990.

STACKS: E 99 .N16 R63 1990

 

Russell, Howard. Indian New England Before the Mayflower. Hanover, NH: University Press of New England, 1980.

READING ROOM: Pequot E 78 .N5 R87 1980

 

Salisbury, Neal. Manitou and Providence. New York City: Oxford U P, 1982.

READING ROOM: Pequot E 78 .N5 S24 1982

 

Schaaff, Gregory. Wampum Belts & Peace Trees: George Morgan, Native Americans, and Revolutionary Diplomacy. Golden, CO: Fulcrum Pub., 1990.

STACKS: E 93 .M83 S33 1990

 

Scozzari, Lois. "The Significance of Wampum to Seventeenth Century Indians in New England", Connecticut Review, 17/1 1995: 59-69.

STACKS: Serials

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Shiel, John. "More About Wampum." The Second Coastal Archaeology Reader: 1900 to the Present. Readings in Long Island Archaeology and Ethnohistory Vol. V. Lexington, MA: Suffolk County Archaeological Association, 1982.

READING ROOM: Local History E 78 .N7 S43 1982

 

Simmons, William S. Cautantowwit's House: An Indian Burial Ground on the Island of Conanicut in Narragansett Bay. Providence, RI: Brown University Press, 1970.

READING ROOM: Pequot E 99 .N16 S5 1970

 

Slotkin, J.S. and K. Schmidt. "Studies in Wampum." American Anthropologist 51 1949: 223-6.

MUTLIMEDIA: Microfilm

 

Snow, Dean R. The Archaeology of New England. New York: Academic Press, 1980.

STACKS: E 78 .N5 S58 1980

 

Snyderman, George. "An Ethnological Discussion of Allegany Seneca Wampum Folklore" Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society,  126/4 1982: 316-326.

REFERENCE DESK: Article File

 

Speck, Frank G. 1. The Functions of Wampum Among the Eastern Algonkian. American Anthropological Association, 6 (1919): 3-71.

REFERENCE DESK: Article File

 

________. The Penn Wampum Belts. New York: De Vinne, 1925.

STACKS: Oversized E 99 .D2 S73 1925

 

________. Penobscot Man: The Life History of a Forest Tribe in Maine. Orono, ME: University of Maine Press, 1997

STACKS: E 99 .P5 S7 1997

 

________ 12. "Wawenock Myth Texts from Maine: The Origin and Use of Wampum." Bureau of American Ethnology 43rd Annual Report 1925-26. Washington, DC: 195-6.

REFERENCE DESK: Article File

 

Sullivan, Martin. Return of the Sacred Wampum Belts of the Iroquois. The History Teacher, 26/1 1992: 7-14.

REFERENCE DESK: Article File

 

Tehanetorens. Wampum Belts. Onchiota, NY: Six Nations Indian Museum, Reprinted 1983, Ontario, Canada: Iroqrafts ltd., 1983.

READING ROOM: REF E 98 .C8 T43 1983

 

Tooker, E. "Á Note on the Return of Eleven Wampum Belts to the Six Nations Iroquois Confederacy on Grand River, Canada." Ethnohistory  45/2 Spring: 219-36.

STACKS: Serials

 

Trigger Bruce G., ed. Handbook of North American Indians: Volume 15: Northeast. Washington, DC: Smithsonian Institution, 1978.

READING ROOM: REF E 77 .H25 1978

 

Vaughan, Alden T. New England Frontier; Puritans and Indians, 1620-1675. Norman, OK: University of Oklahoma Press, 1995.

READING ROOM: Pequot F 7 .V3 1995

 

Wilcox, Vincent. "The Manufacture and use of Wampum in the Northeast." The Second Coastal Archaeology Reader: 1900 to the Present. Readings in Long Island Archaeology and Ethnohistory Vol. V. Lexington, MA: Suffolk County Archaeological Association, 1982.

READING ROOM: Local History E 78 .N7 S43 1982

 

 

Revised January 2008 by the staff of the Mashantucket Pequot Museum & Research Center, Information Resources Department – SAN.