Wampum, a name given to shells, about an inch long and twice the thickness of a knitting-needle, used as money by the American Indians.
Wampum
Chambers's Encyclopaedia, Volume 10: Swastika to Zyrianovsk and Index, p. 542
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Wampum, a name given to shells, about an inch long and twice the thickness of a knitting-needle, used as money by the American Indians.