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Wampum Research Paper

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Wampum refers to the particular type of white and purple shell beads seen in the famous wampum belt of the Iroquois. The wampum belt consists of the white beads which are sliced from the narrow inner pillars of two marine species namely Northern whelks and B. carina. The wampum belt also had purple wampum beads which were cut from purple segment of the more widely distributed hard-shell clam or quahog. The Algonquian bead makes along the coast of the Southern New England and New York gathered, processed and carefully made the wampum. Wampum includes the white shell beads and the purple beads from quahog. Wampum was used by the natives as a form of gift exchange and also was exchanged in recording important treaties and also historic events.

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