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- noun Alternative form of
wampum (beads).
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Examples
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Indians divided their beads into two general classes, the _wompam_, or white beads, and _suckáuhock_, or dark beads.
Wampum A Paper Presented to the Numismatic and Antiquarian Society of Philadelphia Ashbel Woodward
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The word wampum [wompam], [1] which has since become a general term, was restricted by the Indians to the white beads.
Wampum A Paper Presented to the Numismatic and Antiquarian Society of Philadelphia Ashbel Woodward
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