[DOC] [TLE] Wampum - Wikipedia [PAR] The use of wampum beads has been much debated throughout ... Mother has a 
certain string or strings of Wampum that serves as ... He says that these polished 
shells with drilled holes are made from the cunk (conch), while another currency 
of lesser value, called roenoke was fashioned from the... [DOC] [TLE] From Beads to Bounty: How Wampum Became America's First ... [PAR] Jan 14, 2013 ... How wampum changed from bling to money is a complicated story. ... or purple 
beads and discs fashioned from two shells: the white beads from the whelk, ... 
They were placed on strings made of plant fiber or animal tendon and ... These 
powerful neighboring nations were the favored trade partners of the... [DOC] [TLE] WAMPUM ... America's First Currency [PAR] Wampum, ke`kwuk, squau-tho-won; all are Algonquian words for shell beads or 
string of shell beads. Wampumpeage is ... suitable shells. White beads were 
made from Whelk, purple-blackish from Quahog. ... These new tools enabled the 
Indians to produce uniform beads more quickly and with greater ease. Applying 
basic... [DOC] [TLE] NativeTech: Wampum; History and Background [PAR] These shell beads were larger and relatively uncommon because drilling the 
material ... Wampum beads are made in two colors: white ("Wmpi") beads ("
Wompam") from ... coins in New England, Wampum quickly evolved into a formal 
currency after ... First the thin portions were removed with a light sharp hammer, 
and the... [DOC] [TLE] Wampum and Its History - JStor [PAR] these were employed as the currency of the tribes of that region; it is very 
probable, but ... shell the Indians make their beads called wampumpeage and 
mohaicks. The first are ... the form of a bead, and perforated to string on leather." 
Still ... 2 "'Roanoke (a small kind of beades) made of oyster shells, which they use 
and pass. [DOC] [TLE] Lois Scozzari, The Significance of Wampum to Seventeenth Century ... [PAR] Originally Published in The Connecticut Review. ... These shells were found on 
the mud or just below the surface of the water. ... tendons of wild beasts .15 
These strings of white beads, called wampumpeag, were used alone or in ... 
Anthropologist Lynn Ceci theorized that marine shell beads made their 
appearance as early... [DOC] [TLE] Wampum - Haudenosaunee Confederacy [PAR] These belts are used as a guide to narrate Haudenosaunee history, ... Most 
commonly made from the Quahog, a round clam shell, the word wampum comes 
from the ... Historians however have proved that it was first used as currency by 
the ... Every Chief of the Confederacy and every Clan Mother has a certain string 
or... [DOC] [TLE] Manhattan History  The Shell Game Of Manhattan - YodelOut [PAR] Wampum being, in a manner, the currency of the country, with which the 
produce of ... While wampum was made all up and down the Atlantic coast, the ... 
become wampum specialists; and in so doing had lost some of their original skill 
in ... trade: These wampum are properly made of the purple parts of the shells, 
which... [DOC] [TLE] Free Flashcards about NATIVE AMERICANS - StudyStack [PAR] THE CURRENCY CALLED WAMPUM WAS ORIGINALLY STRINGS OF THESE 
MADE FROM SHELLS, BEADS. THIS TRIBE CALLED THEMSELVES... [DOC] [TLE] Wampum Belts - Indian Time [PAR] Mar 15, 2012 ... The word wampum is an Algonquin Indian term for these shell beads ... The 
beads were strung on lengths of thread or string and worked back ... Wampum 
has often been called the money of Indians, but this is not true. ... A Mohawk 
tradition says that the first wampum was made from the quills of the eagle. [DOC] [TLE] The First Nations - Bank of Canada [PAR] English settlers called such articles wampum, an abbreviation of an ... of the 
difficulty in making shell beads even after ... Their money consists of certain little 
bones, made of shells ... bones, and these they string upon thread, or they make 
of... [DOC] [TLE] Wampum - English Wikinfo [PAR] Jul 9, 2011 ... Original

Question: The currency called wampum was originally strings of these made from shells
Answer: Beads