TY  - BOOK
AU  - Shell,Marc
ED  - American Numismatic Society (1907- )
TI  - Wampum and the origins of American money
SN  - 9780252033667
AV  - E98.M7 S47 2013
U1  - 306.3/408997 23
PY  - 2013///]
CY  - Urbana, IL
PB  - University of Illinois Press
KW  - Wampum
KW  - Indians of North America
KW  - Money
KW  - United States
KW  - History
KW  - Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775
KW  - fast
KW  - Colonial period
KW  - Indianer
KW  - gnd
KW  - Zahlungsmittel
KW  - Banknote
KW  - ram
KW  - Monnaie
KW  - Histoire
KW  - Pengar
KW  - historia
KW  - sao
KW  - Nordamerika
KW  - USA
KW  - Nordamerikas indianer
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (pages 101-129) and index; Introduction : why wampum? -- Money and language -- Foreign legal tender -- Translation and conversion -- Coins on paper -- What is wampum? -- Indian giving and Willie Wampum -- Money writing -- Civilization -- Wall Street and democracy -- What happened to wampum
N2  - "Wampum has become a synonym for money, and it is widely assumed that it served the same purposes as money among the Native Algonquians even after coming into contact with European colonists' money. But to equate wampum with money only matches one slippery term with another, as money itself was quite ill-defined in North America for decades during its colonization. Fledgling colonial currencies assimilated much more from Native American trading practices than they imposed on the locals, so much so that colonists regularly expressed fears of "becoming Indians" in their widespread use of paper money, a novel economic innovation adapted from wampum. In this stimulating and intriguing book, Marc Shell illuminates the context in which wampum was used by describing how money circulated in the colonial period and the early history of the United States. Wampum itself, generally tubular beads made from clam or conch shells, was hardly a primitive version of a coin or dollar bill, as it represented to both Native Americans and colonial Europeans a unique medium through which language, art, culture, and even conflict were negotiated. This wide-ranging exploration of economics, literature, and racial and ethnic imagery throughout American history is extensively illustrated with more than a hundred images of documents, artworks, and artifacts, including numerous depictions of Native Americans on paper money."--Jacket
ER  -