SEAWAN
- cylindrical beads made from shells, pierced and strung, used by North American Indians as a medium of exchange, for ornaments, and for ceremonial and sometimes spiritual purposes, esp. such beads when white but also including the more valuable black or da
- money
- wampum (a form of currency formerly used by Native Americans) [n SEAWANS]
- former form of currency used by NAmerican Indians, also SEAWANT, SEWAN [n -S]