Wampum beads were traditional shell beads used by Eastern Woodlands tribes to commemorate treaties or historical events. The Lenape crafted tools and weapons from materials in their environment like wood, bone, and stone. They used these tools for hunting deer and elk as well as creating everyday items. Music and dancing were important parts of Lenape culture, and they made instruments from materials like wood and bone. Children made toys and tools to learn skills like sewing, hunting, and shelter-building. The Lenape also made pottery from clay to cook and store food.

1. By:
Caroline
Skyler
Matt
&
Kunal

2.  Wampum Beads are traditional, sacred shell beads of
the Eastern Woodlands tribes.
 They include the white shell beads fashioned from the
North American channeled whelk shell and the white
and purple beads, made from the quahog.
 Quahog is a Western North Atlantic hard-shelled clam.
 Usually, Woven belts of wampum have commemorated
treaties or historical events.

3.  The Lenape hand crafted mostly all of the tools and
weapons that they used.
 They used all of these tools to create common, everyday
appliances that they used to their fullest potential.
 They used spears carved out of rock and wood.
 They used this to hunt deer and elk.
 From the deer and elk they got meat and hide, fishing
hooks, needles, awls, skewers, and ornaments.
 These were some of the most common used items that
the Lenape obtained.

4.  Music was very influential during the Lenape time
period.
 They used drums, bird bone, whistles, and even wooden
flutes.
 Dancing was one of the favorite things to do. It was
usually accompanied by music from these
instruments.

5.  Moccasins are a sturdy and slipper shaped type of shoe
sewn from tanned leather.
 Children made whistles and bells from bird bones and
shells
 The bandolier was an important part of a Lenape
man’s traditional clothing.
 Lenape men crafted beaded headbands with one or
two feathers in it.
 They had different kinds of feathers in them such as
eagles, turkeys, hawks, egrets, and crane feathers.

6.  The Lenape children made whistles and rattles from
bird bones and shells.
 They were taught how to make tools and weapons.
They also learned how to sew, hunt and build shelters.
 The older children made blankets for their families out
of felt and ribbon.
This an eagle
bone that was
carved out to
be a whistle.

7.  Many of the Lenape girls loved to play with dolls that
they made out of corn husks.
 The boys like to make arrows and go out and shoot
with them.
 The Lenape children and sometimes even the
adults would play a game called
Pahsaheman. This game is very similar to
football. The person cannot run with the ball
but they are allowed to kick it if they catch it.
This was a very popular game for the Lenape.
This is a
corn husk
doll 

8.  The lenape made their own pottery with clay .Clay that
was without stone was dried and destroyed when the
clay was dried the mixed it with water and crushed grit
to be used as a binder to prevent the pottery from
cracking.
 The lenape used their pottery to make their own pots
and pans.

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