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Wampum is a traditional shell bead of the Eastern Woodlands tribes of Native Americans. It includes white shell beads hand-fashioned from the North Atlantic channeled whelk shell and white and purple beads made from the quahog or Western North Atlantic hard-shelled clam. In New York, wampum beads have been discovered dating before 1510. [1]
Antalis pretiosa (formerly Dentalium pretiosum), commonly known as the Wampum tuskshell [3] [1] [4] or the Indian money tusk [3] [5] [1] is a species of tusk shell in the family Dentaliidae. It was first described by George Brettingham Sowerby II , and named by Thomas Nuttall in 1860.
Most molluscs with shells can produce pearls, but only the pearls of bivalves and some gastropods, whose shells are lined with nacre, are valuable. [ 4 ] [ 5 ] The best natural pearls are produced by marine pearl oysters , Pinctada margaritifera and Pinctada mertensi , which live in the tropical and subtropical waters of the Pacific Ocean .
Busycotypus canaliculatus, along with hard clam, is used in the creation of wampum, which is a traditional shell bead made by the Eastern Woodlands tribes of Native Americans. White wampum beads are made of the inner spiral or columella of the channeled whelk shell Busycotypus canaliculatus or Busycotypus carica.
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