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Wampumpeag - Definition, Meaning & Synonyms - Vocabulary.com
Definitions of wampumpeag. noun. small cylindrical beads made from polished shells and fashioned into strings or belts ; used by certain Native American peoples as jewelry or currency.
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WAMPUMPEAG Definition & Meaning - Merriam-Webster
noun wam· pum· peag ˈwäm-pəm-ˌpēg : wampum Word History Etymology Massachusett wampompeag, from wampan white + api string + -ag, plural suffix.
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Wampum - Wikipedia
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 ...
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wampumpeag
wampumpeag Now rare. (ˈwɒmpəmˌpiːg) Forms: α. 7 wampampeag, -peage, -peague, -peak(e, wampam pieg, wampanpeage, -peak, wampompeag(e, -peke, wampumpeage, -peak, wauompeg, wompampeag, wompompeag, 7–8 wampompeak, 8 wampomeag, wampompag, wampumpeg, 9 wampumpeag. β. 7 wampompeal. [Adopted (in 16–17th c.)...
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WAMPUMPEAG definition in American English - Collins Dictionary
1. (formerly) money used by Native Americans, made of cylindrical shells strung or woven together, esp white shells rather than the more valuable black or ...
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wampumpeag, n. meanings, etymology and more | Oxford English ...
The earliest known use of the noun wampumpeag is in the early 1600s. OED's earliest evidence for wampumpeag is from 1627, in the writing of William Bradford, ...
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WAMPUMPEAG Definition & Meaning - Dictionary.com
Thus the singular peag currency, or wampumpeag, which was found in circulation among the North American Indians by the early explorers, was esteemed for the ...
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WAMPUM Definition & Meaning - Merriam-Webster
The meaning of WAMPUM is beads of polished shells strung in strands, belts, or sashes and used by North American Indians as money, ceremonial pledges, ...
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wampumpeag - Wiktionary, the free dictionary
Borrowed from Massachusett wampompeage (“string of white beads used as money”), from wamp, wap, wompi (“white”) + *umpe (“string”) + -ag (plural suffix).
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Wampumpeag, the Bead of the Realm: America's First Currency
Wampum became recognized as a currency by European colonists and traders and to this day is still wrongfully described as “shell money”.
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Wampum | Native American, Iroquois, Shells | Britannica Money
... wampumpeag means “strings of white (shell beads).” Before contact with white settlers, the Indians used wampum primarily for ceremonial purposes, as a ...
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Shinnecock Indian Nation
Although other New England tribes produced wampumpeag, the Indians of Long Island are reputed to have made the best. The Europeans quickly learned the value of the Shinnecock wampumpeag in a trade with other tribes.
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wampum
wampum Chiefly Hist. (ˈwɒmpəm) Also 7 wompam, 7–8 wampam, wampom, 8 wompom. [See wampumpeag. Cf. F. wampoum (Littré Suppl.).] 1. Cylindrical beads made from the ends of shells rubbed down, polished, and threaded on strings, which were often combined to form bracelets, belts, collars, etc. See peag, ...
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Massachusett Pidgin
wampumpeag, 'money,' from Massachusett () , 'white shell beads.' The colonists mistakenly thought the strung beads of wampum were currency.
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