seawan

Related to seawan: Sewan, seawant, peag

seawan

(ˈsiːwən) or

sewan

n
(Anthropology & Ethnology) shell beads, usually unstrung, used by certain North American Indians as money; wampum
[C18: from Narraganset seawohn loose]
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One of Governor Minuit's successors fixed, by placard, the price of the "good splendid seawan of Manhattan" at four for a stuyver.
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The Dutch settlers referred to wampum as "seawan," "seawant," or "zeewand" (Stearns, 1887), because this is what they believed the Indians were calling it.