| Perhaps the most important trade good in this part of the world was wampum. |
| The wampum represents travelling the river together, side by side, but in different vessels. |
| He is shown as a statesman, holding one of the wampum belts presented to Queen Anne. |
| The white beads were called wampum or wompom and the black beads suckauhock, or black money. |
| From the early 1620s, coastal Indians supplied wampum to Dutch traders who exchanged it with inland natives for beaver pelts. |
| Wampum was American Indian bead money, and the purple interior of the quahog shell was used for high-denomination wampum. |
