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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;KBBPLL, post: 8357239, member: 104064&quot;]An interesting study:</p><p>&quot;Chumash Indians Were Using Shell Bead Money 2,000 Years Ago&quot;</p><p><a href="http://www.sci-news.com/archaeology/chumash-money-09303.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.sci-news.com/archaeology/chumash-money-09303.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.sci-news.com/archaeology/chumash-money-09303.html</a></p><p><br /></p><p>History of wampum in New England:</p><p>&quot;From Beads to Bounty: How Wampum Became America’s First Currency—And Lost Its Power&quot;</p><p><a href="https://indiancountrytoday.com/archive/from-beads-to-bounty-how-wampum-became-americas-first-currencyand-lost-its-power" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://indiancountrytoday.com/archive/from-beads-to-bounty-how-wampum-became-americas-first-currencyand-lost-its-power" rel="nofollow">https://indiancountrytoday.com/archive/from-beads-to-bounty-how-wampum-became-americas-first-currencyand-lost-its-power</a></p><p><br /></p><p>I found this particularly fascinating - wampum was also used to communicate.</p><p>&quot;Wampum was the essential medium of all peacemaking. Every act of diplomacy, both within the [Iroquois] League and outside it, had to be carried out through the giving and receiving of wampum. If a message had to be sent, it would be spoken into belts or strings of wampum, which the messenger would present to the recipient. Such belts were referred to as words; beads were woven into mnemonic patterns bearing on the import of the message. Without them, no message stood a chance of being taken seriously by its recipient.&quot;[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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