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wampum::noun | Spocien Dictionary
small cylindrical beads made from polished shells and fashioned into strings or belts; used by certain Native American peoples as jewelry or currency
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | peag, wampumpeag |
| Type of | beads, string of beads |
Examples of wampum
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The price paid was 18 hoes, 18 fathoms of wampum, 18 coats, 18 hatchets and 18 knives.
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Leave it to small business because they don't have political wampum.
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Perhaps the most famous Native bead is wampum, a cylindrical tube of quahog or whelk shell.
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The Native orator holds a belt of wampum, essential for diplomacy in the Eastern Woodlands.
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The women often wore headbands of dyed deer hair or wampum.
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The only goods worth stealing would have been wampum.
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The Ivy Leaguers had sold out for wampum.
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Festivalgoers are welcome to roll up their sleeves for making bows and arrows, stringing wampum beads and corn-shelling.
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Lets not throw that away, worth more than wampum.
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- Boodle: informal terms for money
- Small cylindrical beads made from polished shells and fashioned into strings or belts; used by certain Native American peoples as jewelry or currency
- Wampum are traditional, sacred shell beads of Eastern Woodlands tribes. They include the white shell beads fashioned from the North Atlantic channeled whelk shell; and the white and purple beads made from the quahog, or Western North Atlantic hard-shelled clam. ...
- North American Indian system of writing, sorcery and exchange with colored beads.
- In the Massachusetts Indian language, this word means white, or the color of shells.
- Short for Wanpanpiag. Native American money, strings of handmade shell beads which derive their value from the time required to make them. Wampum was actually considered legal tender in the Massachusetts Bay colony after 1627.
- An Algonquian word, wampum originally referred to strings or belts of shell (especially Quahog). They were used to record significant events as well as to communicate messages of peace or war between Indian groups. ...
