How To Use Wampum In A Sentence
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The word wampum [wompam], [1] which has since become a general term, was restricted by the Indians to the white beads.
Wampum A Paper Presented to the Numismatic and Antiquarian Society of Philadelphia
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[80] That is, the French commander said that the Indians had accepted wampum from the French towns, and therefore could not complain of them.
Camps and Firesides of the Revolution
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The Indians had a sort of money called wampum, which was made of clam-shells, and this strange sort of specie was likewise taken in payment of debts by the English settlers.
Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 4
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Wampum was prized by the Indians and used by the Europeans as currency in exchange for beaver pelts.
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The wampum was her family record, badge of her office; speech made while holding it was tantamount to testimony made upon the Bible.
Drums of Autumn
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He had old-fashioned notions in favor of gold and silver, which he considered the true standards of wealth and mediums of commerce, and one of his first edicts was that all duties to government should be paid in those precious metals, and that seawant, or wampum, should no longer be a legal tender.
Knickerbocker's History of New York, Complete
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He doesn't know much about it, if he calls a wigwam a wampum," interposed Miss Smith, with still greater pertness.
A Fair Barbarian
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Public confessions were made, and penitents touched a wampum belt as a pledge of reform.
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It should be said, in justice to the New Haven colonists, though they were the most opulent of the New England planters, save the wealthy settlers of Narragansett, that money of all kinds was scarce, and that the Indian money, wampum-peag, being made of a comparatively frail sea-shell, was more easily disfigured and broken than was metal coin; and that there was little transferable wealth in the community anyway, even in "Country Pay.
Sabbath in Puritan New England
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The shells of these clams are used by the Indians as money, and make what they call their wampum; they likewise serve their women for an ornament when they intend to appear in full dress.
The Conquest of Canada (Vol. 1 of 2)
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And the year before that, he came in third having tripped up on the word "wampumpeag," a string of polished beads or shells.
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The Indians had a sort of money, called wampum, which was made of clam-shells; and this strange sort of specie was likewise taken in payment of debts by the English settlers.
Short Stories and Selections for Use in the Secondary Schools
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This inferior article was therefore condemned to pass five for a stiver during the following month, and afterwards six, at which rate the loose, unstringed wampum, which served the community as change, subsequently circulated. [
Wampum A Paper Presented to the Numismatic and Antiquarian Society of Philadelphia
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A wampum of dark color signaled a serious purpose, sadness, or perhaps great political importance.
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Rich furs, green tobacco and long strings of gay and polished shells called wampum were gladly exchanged by the Indians for bits of colored glass, beads, hatchets and knives, commencing a trade that was later extensively carried on in the north by the Hudson Bay Trading Company, and at the mouth of the river by the Dutch settlers.
A Treasury of Heroes and Heroines A Record of High Endeavour and Strange Adventure from 500 B.C. to 1920 A.D.
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I admired his war-girdle and moccasins, speaking somewhat carelessly of the beautiful shell-work designs as "wampum" -- an Iroquois term.
The Hidden Children
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The taxonomic Latin for ‘quahog’ is Mercenaria mercenaria - a tautonym that pays tribute to the use of quahog shells as wampum.
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From the early 1620s, coastal Indians supplied wampum (sacred shell beads, polished and strung in strands, belts, or sashes) to Dutch traders who exchanged it with inland natives for beaver pelts.
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Almost all the natives had Indian money, called wampum, which they made from abalone or clam-shells by cutting out round pieces like buttons or small, hollow beads.
Stories of California
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At one point, the Dutch -- eager to improve their profits -- produced their own wampum in Holland, hoping to use it back in New Amsterdam to trade with the natives.
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Six white beads of wampum to the stiver was the rate established by authority in 1673.] _26th, Tuesday.
Journal of Jasper Danckaerts, 1679-1680
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In our own time such words as papoose, sachem, tepee, wigwam and wampum have begun to drop out of everyday use; 11 at an earlier period the language sloughed off ocelot, manitee, calumet, supawn, samp and quahaug, or began to degrade them to the estate of provincialisms.
Chapter 2. The Beginnings of American. 2. Sources of Early Americanisms
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Wampum was American Indian bead money, and the purple interior of the quahog shell was used for high-denomination wampum.
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Three beads of wampum separating the two purple rows symbolize peace, friendship and respect.
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Early Americans enjoyed clams with the same passion as we do today, and polished clamshells served as currency (known as wampum) from the 1600's to the end of the seventeenth century.
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This was nothing more nor less than strings of beads wrought out of clams, periwinkles, and other shell-fish, and called seawant or wampum.
Knickerbocker's History of New York, Complete
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About the neck were long wampum necklaces with _dentalium, unionida, and auricula, _ interspersed with beads.
An Introduction to the mortuary customs of the North American Indians
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Federal negotiators, in turn, received wampum, pipes, and sometimes weapons.
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They were called wampumpeag, were sewed on deer or other fine skins, and the belts thus made were used to emphasize points in negotiation or in treaties, or in speeches.
Folkways A Study of the Sociological Importance of Usages, Manners, Customs, Mores, and Morals
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Smiling and bashful she stood there in her clinging skirt and wampum-broidered vest, her slender, rounded limbs moulded into soft knee-moccasins of fawn-skin, and the Virgin's Girdle knotted across her thighs in silver-tasselled seawan.
The Hidden Children
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The shells of these clams are used by the Indians as money, and make what they call their wampum; they likewise serve their women for an ornament, when they intend to appear in full dress.
Camps and Firesides of the Revolution
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Washington sent a wampum belt and speech to the sachems of the Tuscaroras in August, “to assure you of our real friendship and love—and to confirm & strengthen that chain of friendship, which has subsisted between us for so many ages past.”
George Washington’s First War
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In our own time such words as papoose, sachem, tepee, wigwam and wampum have begun to drop out of everyday use; 11 at an earlier period the language sloughed off ocelot, manitee, calumet, supawn, samp and quahaug, or began to degrade them to the estate of provincialisms.
Chapter 2. The Beginnings of American. 2. Sources of Early Americanisms
