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23635	Woodward, Ashbel	Wampum A Paper Presented to the Numismatic and Antiquarian Society of Philadelphia			.txt	text/plain	8565	489	71	Indian beads consisted mostly of small pieces of wood, stained white or tributes in wampum from the Long Island Indians. The inland tribes were of course unable to produce their own wampum, and Wampum is often spoken of as "Indian money." This expression if like manner, the Indian had never learned that use of his golden wampum wampum belt, alternate white and purple strings attached in rows to a But wampum strings and belts subserved other equally important uses. warrior declared his passion for his Indian maid, by presenting wampum Iroquois was less fearful, among whom a string of white wampum was hung a string of white wampum in his hand, and set the example by a Dutch provinces, wampum soon became a leading article in the Indian Among the Indians of the present day wampum is unknown. comprehensive word for all shell beads in use among the Indians.	./cache/23635.txt	./txt/23635.txt