1) Algonquian gelt 2) American Indian relic 3) Beaded cash 4) Boodle 5) Bread 6) Cabbage 7) Cash for Hiawatha 8) Clams 9) Dinero 10) Dough 11) Early American exchange 12) Early NA money 13) Gelt 14) Indian beads used as money 15) Indian exchange medium 16) Kale 17) Lettuce 18) Lolly 19) Loot 20) Lucre
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1) Beaddough 2) Beads 3) Boodle 4) Clams 5) Dinero 6) Dough 7) Gelt 8) Kale 9) Lettuce 10) Lolly 11) Lucre 12) Moola 13) Moolah 14) Peag 15) Peage 16) Pelf 17) Shekels 18) Simoleons 19) Wampumpeag
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Wampum are traditional shell beads of the Eastern Woodlands tribes of the indigenous people of North America. Wampum 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. Wampum were used as money by the Native America...
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• (n.) Beads made of shells, used by the North American Indians as money, and also wrought into belts, etc., as an ornament.
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String of shells used as money and gifts.
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tubular shell beads that have been assembled into strings or woven into belts or embroidered ornaments, formerly used as a medium of exchange by ... [1 related articles]
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Cylindrical beads ground from sea shells of white and purple, woven into articles of personal adornment and also used as money by American Indians of the northeastern woodlands. Wampum was also used...
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Beads made of shells, used by the North American Indians as money, and also wrought into belts, etc, as an ornament. 'Round his waist his belt of wampum.' (Longfellow) 'Girded with his wampum braid.' (Whittier) ... These beads were of two kinds, one white, and the other black or dark purple. The term wampum is properly applied only to the white; th...
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Wam'pum noun [ North American Indian
wampum ,
wompam , from the Mass.
wómpi , Del.
wāpe , white.] Beads made of shells, used by the North American Indians as money, and also wrought into belts, etc., as an ornament. « Round his waist his belt of
wampum ...
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Wampum, or Wompan, is an American Indian word meaning 'strings of white beads'. Wampum was used as money, according to tradition, first by the Narragansett Indians and was afterward generally adopted by the Indians along the eastern coast as a medium of exchange. It was also used as money by the colonists of New England and the Middle States, being...
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The wampum is a broad belt formed of strings of shells and worn as an ornament or girdle by North American Indians. The name was also given to the interior parts of the clam shell which was used as currency among some Indians.
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n] - small beads made from polished shells and formerly used as money by native Americans 2. [n] - small cylindrical beads made from polished shells and used by certain Native American peoples as jewelry
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An Indian term for belts of small beads or shells that were used as money. Many mountain men adopted this term to mean all money.
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peag noun small cylindrical beads made from polished shells and fashioned into strings or belts; used by certain Native American peoples as jewelry or currency
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Cylindrical beads ground from sea shells of white and purple, woven into articles of personal adornment and also used as money by American Indians of the northeastern woodlands. Wampum was also used for sealing treaties and as a means of recording important events. Broad belts or collars were formed of strings of wampum arranged in patterns, someti...
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small beads made from polished shells, formerly used by Native Americans as currency and jewelry.
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