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A history of American currency
William Graham Sumner. I os. Many cattle died. A cow was worth £2S or £30. The
President of Harvard College was condemned to pay an usher £20 for flogging
him. WAMPUMPEAG CURRENCY. When exploring parties penetrated to Long ...
William Graham Sumner,
1968
Roanoke. and. Wampumpeag. Child, entering Ye Olde Trading Post, takes the
pegs upon the walls For trees, fingers the beaded doll in buckskin dress, a
moccasin, A square of maple sugar maple leaf, small imprint of a fingernail In its
clear ...
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History of the Town of Whately, Mass: Including a Narrative ...
It was of two kinds, white, or wampumpeag ; and black or blue, called suckau-
hock, which was of double the value of white. In 1650 the Massachusetts
government ordered that wampumpeag should be a legal tender for debts (
except for ...
Josiah Howard Temple,
1872
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Memoir of Roger Williams: the founder of the state of ...
The Pequods agreed to deliver up the individuals who were engaged in the
murder, and to pay four hundred fathoms of wampumpeag, forty beaver skins,
and thirty- otter skins. While the Pequod ambassadors were at Boston, a party of
the ...
James Davis Knowles,
1834
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O Brave New Words!: Native American Loanwords in Current English
Bradford, however, did introduce wampumpeag, wampum, in his book in 1627 —
from wampumpeage, southeastern New England Algonquian, literally "white
strings." In connection with the trade for beaver and other animal skins, Bradford
...
From the Algonquin languages, then spoken in large areas of eastern North
America, come wampumpeag 'string of beads (often used as money)' (1631), and
a shortened form of the same word, wampum (1636), which arose from the fact
that ...
Charles Laurence Barber,
1997
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Porcher's Creek: Lives Between the Tides
Might not the very wampumpeag altar cloths I vainly tried to read in Rouen have
been greeting me, if only I spoke their tongue, with tales of Porcher's from long,
long ago? Perhaps they do; certainly, it is no more foolish a fancy than that of ...
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The Ring of Words: Tolkien and the Oxford English Dictionary
worked on four individual entries, for the words Walnut, Walrus, Wampum, and
Wampumpeag (the less familiar word from which Wampum derives). Walnut and
Walrus were known to have unusually troublesome Germanic etymologies, which
...
Peter Gilliver, Jeremy Marshall, Edmund Weiner,
2009
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Curiosities of History: Boston, September Seventeenth, 1630-1880
“Peag,” or “wampum,” or “wampumpeag,” simply means stringed shells of a
peculiar kind, or Indian money; and this, it seems, came early into use, as
Hubbard says, “The people of New Plymouth, in the year 1627, began trade with
the Dutch ...
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Folkways: A Study of Mores, Manners, Customs and Morals
Wampumpeag and roanoke. On the Atlantic coast shell money was made on
Long Island Sound and at Narragansett from the shell of the round clam, in two
colors, white and purple, the latter from the dark spot in the shell. These were
bugles ...
William Graham Sumner,
2007
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Dan's Literary Prize Spotlight: Stock Market Down, Wampum Sales Up
Wampum is short for the Narragansett/Algonquin word Wampumpeag, meaning, “white shell beads.” It existed in pre-contact times and had many uses: as ... «Dan's Papers, Iul 15»
Werowocomoco ceremony: America didn't begin in 1607
Ceremonial gifts Pamunkey Chief Kevin Brown displays a bracelet of wampumpeag shell beads and copper. He presented bracelets to representatives of the ... «William and Mary News, Iun 13»
ИСТОРИЯ БУМАЖНОГО ЛИСТА
Этот вид письменности назывался «вампум» — от индейского слова wampam (сокращённое от wampumpeag) — белые бусы. Переплетения шнуров ... «Наука и Жизнь, Dec 09»