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Wam"pum (?), n. [North American Indian wampum, wompam, from the Mass. wómpi, Del. w&ā;pe, white.] 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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Round his waist his belt of wampum. Longfellow.
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Girded with his wampum braid. Whittier.
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&hand_; 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; the dark purple ones are called suckanhock. See Seawan. “It [wampum] consisted of cylindrical pieces of the shells of testaceous fishes, a quarter of an inch long, and in diameter less than a pipestem, drilled . . . so as to be strung upon a thread. The beads of a white color, rated at half the value of the black or violet, passed each as the equivalent of a farthing in transactions between the natives and the planters.” Palfrey.
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