Description

4 Shells per Order Per pack.

Eastern US – Wampum Quahog Clam Shell Jewelrygrade Purple Quahog Rare Qty per pack is 4.

wampum to seventeenth century,

We used wampum primarily for ceremonial purposes, as a record of an important agreement or treaty, as an object of tribute given by subject tribes, or for gift exchange (q.v.). Its value derived from its ceremonial importance and the skill involved in making it. In the early 17th century wampum came to be used as money in trade between whites and Indians because of a shortage of European currency. When machines were invented in the mid-18th century for mass production of wampum, the resulting inflation stopped its use as money in the eastern United States. Western Indians, however, continued to use it commercially until the mid-19th century.

And we still use it.