Metal tool money, such as knife and spade monies ... The earliest known use of wampum, which are strings of beads made from clam shells, was by North American Indians in 1535.

It is not the only item from nature to have been used as money. Wampum, a type of shell bead, were used as currency by Native Americans while whale teeth were exchanged for goods by people in Fiji.

Beginning from 1637, wampum was a legal form of currency in New England until 1661, while it was the official currency in New York till 1673. Also known as stone money, the gigantic circular ...

For northeastern tribes, wampum was a valued gift. But European settlers, whether by mistake or by design, adopted it as money. So in 1637, the general court of Massachusetts Bay Colony legalized ...

Wampum’s Richard “Dick” Allen will be posthumously inducted into the National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum on July 27. Advertisement “We have a hall of famer in Wampum,” Santelli ...