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Webster 1913 Edition
Seawant
{
Sea′wan
,Sea′want
, }Noun.
The name used by the Algonquin Indians for the shell beads which passed among the Indians as money.
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Seawan
was of two kinds; wampum
, white, and suckanhock
, black or purple, – the former having half the value of the latter. Many writers, however, use the terms seawan
and wampum
indiscriminately. Bartlett.