wampum

• informal terms for money
• small cylindrical beads made from polished shells and fashioned into strings or belts
• Beads made of shells, used by the North American Indians as money, and also wrought into belts, etc., as an ornament
• Residential area (city, town, village) in the United States of America (USA) in Pennsylvania

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