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Wampum has become a synonym for money, and it is widely assumed that it served the same purposes as money among the Native Algonquians even after coming into contact with European colonists' money. But to equate wampum with money only matches one slippery term with another, as money itself was quite ill-defined in North America for decades during its colonization. In this stimulating and intriguing book, Marc Shell illuminates the context in which wampum was used by describing how money circulated in the colonial period and ...

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Wampum and the Origins of American Money 2018, University of Illinois Press

ISBN-13: 9780252083938

Trade paperback

Wampum and the Origins of American Money 2013, American Numismatic Society

ISBN-13: 9780252033667

Hardcover