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Significados de wampumpeag en inglés

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wampum

Small cylindrical beads made from polished shells and fashioned into strings or belts; used by certain Native American peoples as jewelry or currency.

wampum
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Examples for "wampum"
Examples for "wampum"
1
Among the Indians, strings of wampum paid for goods, marriage proposals, tribute.
New york: the novel
2
Marie, in the following words, accompanying them with a string of wampum:-
Personal Memoirs of a Residence of Thirty Years with the Indian ...
3
They appealed to this treaty, and to the evidence of the wampum-belts.
The Iroquois Book of Rites
4
This wampum was given to me that I might remain in peace.
Personal Memoirs of a Residence of Thirty Years with the Indian ...
5
Got paid in wampum once, and one time I took a horse.
Dreadnought
Translations for wampumpeag
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wampum