Wampum beads have been used for various reasons dating before 1510. Strings of wampum were used for storytelling, ceremonial gifts, and recording important treaties and historical events. Wampum was also used by the northeastern Indigenous tribes as a means of exchange, strung together in lengths for convenience. The first colonists understood it as a currency and adopted it as such in trading with them.
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