Gradhiva N°33: Wampum : Perles de la diplomatie en Nouvelle-France. Photographie from Caesar's consulship to the

from Caesar's consulship to the death of Augustus (60 BC - 14 AD)

reproduced for the first time in their entirety in a publication

Fascinated by the great metal monsters of his childhood

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the children of Khaemhor

Gradhiva N°33: Wampum : Perles de la diplomatie en Nouvelle-France. Photographie from Caesar's consulship to theExhibition at the Quai Branly Jacques Chirac Museum, from February 8 to May 15, 2022. Towards the very beginning of the 17th century in Northeast America, as France extended its colonial influence in the region, small cylindrical shell beads, wampum or porcelain to the Frenchbegan to be used as objects of exchange between Native Americans and Europeans. Among Indigenous nations, wampum had a well established social and political use, often adorning