wampum

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It was also their economic nerve center, with the salmon trading for all manner of goods from feathers to copper to wampum, beads crafted from shells.

From Washington Times • Aug. 16, 2022

“You can sense that that’s not where they belong and that’s not where they want to be,” she said of the wampum belts, war clubs and other items she documented with her phone camera.

From Seattle Times • Jul. 21, 2022

And some of your ingredients felt like home to me, such as the Quogue clam, then later it comes wampum, the first money.

From Salon • Dec. 12, 2021

“Too little value, too much time,” the criticism that Adamson says settlers leveled against wampum, still holds sway.

From New York Times • Jan. 19, 2021

Around his neck hung a pouch of tobacco, a long knife, and a thick chain of the prized white shell beads called wampum.

From "1491" by Charles C. Mann