NARRAGANSETT INDIAN

TRIBE

BIOGRAPHIES, ARTS, AND

CLOTHING

BY: NAFAELY FRUTOS

CRAFTSThe Narragansett tribes did a lot of beadwork

and baskets. They crafted wampum which was made of white and purple shell beads.

The wampum beads were also traded. They mainly used them for

cultural importance. The designs and

pictures on wampum belt often

told a story or represented a person's family.

ARTS

Edward Mitchell Bannister On June 10 of 1857 Banister married Christiana

Carteaux, “a Narragansett Indian who was born in North Kingston, Rhode Island. The couple had no children. Christiana worked as a wigmaker and hairdresser in Boston, and her Rhode island background might have prompted the Bannister's to move from Boston to Providence, Rhode Island, in 1870.”

CLOTHING

CLOTHING

The Narragansett women wore skirts that were only knee-length and the men wore a

breechcloth Usually shirts weren’t necessary in the culture. Narragansett people wore

deerskin mantles around cooler weather. The Narragansett men and women both wore

earrings and mocassins, which are like boots.

CLOTHING

The Narragansett's usually wore beaded headbands that had a feather near the back. Sometimes a Narragansett chief wore a head dress with feathers pointing upward from the headband. Narragansett men sometimes had

a Mohawk hairstyle or even shaved their heads completely and left a scalp lock, one long lock of hair on the top center of their

heads. The Narragansett women usually had just long hair though.

CLOTHING [NOW]

Today, some Narragansett people still continue using the traditional

headband or moccasins. They do also wear modern clothes, such as jeans,

instead of wearing breechcloths. They also wear feathers in their hair only on

special occasions.

BELLA NOKA She was a world champion in a Eastern Blanket Dance around October of 1999

WORKS CITED http://bigorrin.org/narragansett_kids.htm http://lcweb2.loc.gov/diglib/legacies/RI/

200003497.html http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Prairie/

3374/canonicus.htm

http://www.ric.edu/BANNISTER/about_emb.php

http://www.nativetech.org/clothing/regions/region1.html

CREDITS-Rachael Busuuwla

-Vanessa Ortiz

-Ashley Cotto