Oneida Tribal Wampum Belt: Iroquois

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Oneida Tribal Wampum Belt: Iroquois Description: For your consideration is a beautiful reproduction Wampum Belt: The Oneida Tribal Belt. This belt is made of dark purple and white Czech trade beads, the finest quality on the market today. The belt is set on a natural hemp fiber and threaded with an artificial sinew. Measures 18 inches in length and 7 1/2 inches in width. Signed S Longboat Cayuga Six Nations. This belt was long in the possession of Cheif Skenando of the Oneidas, the friend and ally of George Washington during the Revolutionary War period. The belt was known as the Tribal Belt of the Oneida Nation. The Six squares represents the territories of the Six Nations, the Mohawks, Oneidas, Onondagas, Cayugas, Tuscaroras and Senecas, who are joined together as one people, one nation, one country. The six diamonds are the council fires of each state of the six united brothers. One time Skenando was on an offical trip to Albany. While t his so-called "friends"fed him liquor until he passsed out unconcious. When he awoke he found himself with his face in the gutter, all of his ceremonial clothing and possession gone. He vowed never to drink the white man's firewater again. When he returned home he said to his people, "Drink no firewater of the white man. It makes you mice for the white men who are cats. Many a meal they have read more
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