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Title: History/By Region/North America - Trade Rings - their History, Use, and Meaning Short article on the finger rings first introduced by the Jesuits for use in trade with native americans.
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TRADE RINGS
TRADE RINGS
Their History, Use, and Meaning
by Chuck Leonard. © 2000
The practice of using finger rings for trade or for gifts to the Native Americans began before 1650. These trade rings often had stamped or engraved symbols on a variety of plaque shapes and were used for over 250 years.
When first introduced by French Jesuit missionaries, the rings were made of brass and had scenes of saints or religious monograms stamped on (or cast into) round or oval plaques. In 1702 seventy-two dozen of these, Jesuit style trade rings, were ordered from Europe. They were ordered for the Kaskaskia Mission in Illinois, to be used as rewards for learning catechism or in exchange for food.
By 1700 these rings were also being used by fur traders for gifts or barter. This greatly increased the number of rings produced and the production technique changed. The rings were cast plain and crudely engraved later, perhaps by the trader. By 1750 the rings were most often engraved with secular motifs on oval, heart and octagonal plaques. Some rings were made of silver, as shown by a fur trader's order, in 1798, for "six dozen silver finger rings with oval plates".
Early photographs show how the rings were worn and that they were used well into the 20th century. Archaeological findings also show that the rings were worn on both hands, by both sexes, sometimes several rings to the finger.
There seems to be five or six major patterns of plaque design. The first type, the initial rings, all have one, two, or three initials in their design. The second have L and heart as part of their design. The third, the X, XX or M rings all have crossing straight lines as part of their motif. The impressed heart (or hearts) design rings are the fourth style. Fifth and sixth are the clasped hands and the cross or saint motif rings.
The symbolic meaning of the plaque design is the subject of an enormous amount of conjecture. The matter is complicated; one must keep in mind that the Indian and the designer probably had different ideas as to the meaning of the plaque designs and that style drift of these plaque designs almost certainly occurred. There is much room for research.
These obscure, but intriguing, little bits of early American history are still being found, researched and even reproduced by a few silversmiths for those who find them interesting.
For Catalog of Trade Rings - click on the Link
http://www.geocities.com/trade_silver/Trade_Ring_Catalog.html
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