WAMPUM
- money
- 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
- a form of currency formerly used by Native Americans [n WAMPUMS]
- a form of currency once used by North American Indians, also PEAG, PEAGE [n -S]