Wampum Shell RondelleFor thousands of years, Indigenous people of Americas northeast region have crafted small, cylindrical beads called wampum from purple and white whelk and clam shells. The Two Row wampum codified an alliance between the Haudenosaunee and the Dutch in the early 1600s. The white shells symbolize the purity of the agreement and represent a river. Three beads of white wampum separate the purple rows, and those three beads represent peace, friendship and