A History of Indigenous North American Wampum Objects in France, 1678-1845

This article studies the archival records to explore how various wampum objects made the journey from North America to France, ending up mainly in Paris-where they are now held at the Musée du quai Branly-Jacques Chirac-but also in smaller provincial centers such as Chartres, Lille, and Besançon. What makes this research so interesting and so challenging is the great age of the objects, most of which date back to before the loss of France's North American possessions in 1760. Tracing their fate across the centuries faces the hurdle of the French Revolution, which created gaps in the record by significantly reshaping royal and private collections or even breaking them up altogether. Of the twenty or so wampum objects known to have been sent to France, either in an official or diplomatic context or by networks of collectors, only around half can be identified with any certainty in today's collections

Archaeology · Certainty · Context (archaeology · Extant taxon · Genealogy · Geography · Indigenous · Archaeological Research and Protection · Archaeology and Natural History · History · Latin American history and culture

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