Wampum
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wampum-181-13106403
title:
Wampum
text:
Wampum is a traditional shell bead of the Eastern Woodlands tribes of Native Americans. It includes white shell beads hand-fashioned from the North Atlantic channeled whelk shell and white and purple beads made from the quahog or Western North Atlantic hard-shelled clam. In New York, wampum beads have been discovered dating before 1510. Before European contact, strings of wampum were used for storytelling, ceremonial gifts, and recording important treaties and historical events, such as the Two
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encyclopedia
description:
Traditional shell bead of the Eastern Woodlands Indigenous tribes of North America
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wampum
date created:
2003-12-31T15:56:23Z
date modified:
2024-09-06T00:29:29Z
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13
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