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Sheet from a Book of the Dead, ca. 1075-945 BCE

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Papyrus sheet from a Book of the Dead from 1075-945 BCE

Figure 9: Hand papermaking from G. A. Böckler’s Theatrum Machinarum Novum (Nuremberg, 1661). With
water-powered hammers, the linen rags are pulped. The vatman stands at the vat with a mould; the
coucher presses the post; the drying sheets hang on ropes above, ready to be sized, calendared, gathered into reams, and packaged. Courtesy of Alan Crocker

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Figure 8: Diagram of the parts of a common press. Line drawing by Chartwell Illustrators

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Figure 7: Mezzotint of Samson Occom by Jonathan Spilsbury, after a portrait by Mason Chamberlin, 1768. National Portrait Gallery, public domain.

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Figure 6: Hiawatha Belt

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Figure 5: Treaty of Shackamaxon Belt

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Figure 5: Treaty of Shackamaxon Belt

Figure 4: George Washington Wampum Belt (Onandaga Nation, "Washington Wampum Belt")

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FIGURE 1. Chief Jake Thomas holding replicas of the Two Row Wampum and
the Friendship belt at the 1988 repatriation ceremony. Courtesy of the American Philosophical Society.

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