Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Shell money of the Californian Indians, consisting of circular disks of Pachyderma crassatelloides from a quarter of an inch to an inch in diameter and perforated in the center for stringing.
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Examples
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California had two kinds of shell money, ullo and hawok.
Folkways A Study of the Sociological Importance of Usages, Manners, Customs, Mores, and Morals William Graham Sumner 1875
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NID3 also lists hawok, Californian Indian money consisting of shell disks or buttons, and roanoke, from the Virginian Algonquian rawranóke, an alternative term for wampum.
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