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Wampum, strings or belts of clam or conch shells, had many uses among native peoples. Among them: as an artistic way of telling the narrative of a sovereign people (e.g., the Iroquois wampum belt), as a diplomatic and trade language, and as a form of tribal and intertribal specie. Intriguingly and convincingly, Shell (Irving Babbitt Professor of Comparative Literature, Harvard Univ.; American Babel: Literatures of the United States from Abnaki to Zuni) argues that wampum was adopted by the Dutch and ...Log In or Sign Up to Read More