wampum

• The Doorkeepers sent runners out with strings of wampum, announcing a council meeting at Floating Bridge. —  THE YEARS OF RICE AND SALT - Kim Stanley Robinson
• On their receiving back the wampum, they took my advice, and prepared to leave their country and people immediately. —  A Narrative of the Life of Mrs. Mary Jemison
• I remembered that the Indians of the continent have always set a high value on wampum, which is made solely from sea-shells, and have attributed a kind of sacredness for this class of productions. —  Personal Memoirs Of A Residence Of Thirty Years With The Indian Tribes On The American Frontiers
• I , the man who should hand the wampum, and I , the man to whom the red men should look for redress! —  Personal Memoirs Of A Residence Of Thirty Years With The Indian Tribes On The American Frontiers
• Then he held out a belt of wampum, and continued: "By this belt I ask you, my father, to take pity on your children, and grant us two days in which our old men may counsel together to find means of appeasing your wrath." —  A Half Century of Conflict - Volume I France and England in North America

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