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Wampum from Middle and Late Woodland periods (beginning around AD 200) had a robust shape, about 8mm in length and 5mm in diameter, with larger stonebored holes of more than 2mm. Wampum beads of the mid-1600's average 5mm length and 4mm diameter with tiny holes were bored with European metal awls average 1mm.
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Wampum - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Wampum, a type of bead made from shell, is the most important bead in American history. It was never Indian money, but held saccred by Native Americans, especially the Iroquois. ... A bead researcher can't say enough about wampum. It is the most written about bead in the world. It is the most important bead in American...
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Wampum Beads ... Wampum is the most important bead in American history and no doubt the most written about bead anywhere. It was not "Indian money," but was used as money by the European settlers, who lacked coins. It was legal tender in all 13 original states and was still being regulated as a currency into the 18th century.
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Wampum Beads ... Quickly wampum became the preferred coin substitute, as it was more portable and less susceptible to spoilage than commodity money. On November 15, 1637 the Massachusetts General Court promulgated that wampum beads would pass at 6 to a penny and were to be legal as payment in sums under 12 pence.
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How did someone weaving wampum decide which colors to use? ... The pictures above are sample wampum designs from the general area where the Wampanoag Indians would have lived. Wampum beads could be strung together in "belts" or could be on a single string.
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Included in this essay are the Narragansett. ... A certain young native leader, 'Prince Philip'...had a coat on and buckskins set thick with these beads of wampum in pleasant wild works and a broad built of the same. His accoutrements were valued at twenty pounds.
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Wampum -- purple and white shell beads -- was not really money but a method of recording solemn agreemnts, history, or religious matters. Part of Native American Beadwork. ... Wampum Belts of Treaties, Agreements with Invaders...
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