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small beads made from polished shells and formerly used as money by native Americans

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

A kind of aboriginal shell money, or wampum, of the Atlantic coast of the United States; - originally applied only to polished white cylindrical beads.

A kind of aboriginal shell money, or wampum, of the Atlantic coast of the United States; - originally applied only to polished white cylindrical beads.

p[=e]g, n. polished shell-beads used as money among the North American Indians.--Also PEAK (p[=e]k).