Wampum

Webster's Condensed Dictionary- A Condensed Dictionary of the English Language · 1909 · p. 685

wom'pum, n. Small beads made of shells, used by the N. Amer. Indians as money, and also wrought into belts, etc., as an ornament. [Ind. wampum, wompam, fr. Ma . wdmpi, Del. wape, white.] —