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    { Seawan , Seawant , } n. The name used by the Algonquin Indians for the shell beads which passed among the Indians as money.
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    ☞ Seawan was of two kinds; wampum, white, and suckanhock, black or purple, -- the former having half the value of the latter. Many writers, however, use the terms seawan and wampum indiscriminately.
    Bartlett.

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