Wampum

Object/Artifact

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Old Colony History Museum

Name/Title

Wampum

Entry/Object ID

1970.16

Description

Box with glass cover containing necklace with forty-one (41) copper beads, thirteen (13) white and nineteen (19) purple quahog shell to show where beads come from.

Lexicon

Nomenclature 4.0

Nomenclature Tertiary Object Term

Wampum

Nomenclature Secondary Object Term

Bead, Trade

Nomenclature Primary Object Term

Money

Nomenclature Class

Exchange Media

Nomenclature Category

Category 08: Communication Objects

Getty AAT

Concept

wampum

Search Terms

SUBJECTS: Indigenous peoples

Material

Copper, shell, in a glass/wood/fabric case