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Title: Wampum
A Paper Presented to the Numismatic and Antiquarian Society
of Philadelphia

Author: Ashbel Woodward

Release Date: November 26, 2007 [EBook #23635]

Language: English

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WAMPUM,

A PAPER PRESENTED TO

THE NUMISMATIC AND ANTIQUARIAN SOCIETY

OF PHILADELPHIA.

BY

ASHBEL WOODWARD, M.D.,

OF FRANKLIN, CONN.,

CORRESPONDING MEMBER.

ALBANY, N. Y.:
J. MUNSELL, PRINTER.
1878.

Entered according to act of Congress in the year 1878,
by ASHBEL WOODWARD,
in the Library of Congress.

At a Stated Meeting of the Numismatic and Antiquarian Society of
Philadelphia, held January 2, 1868, the following resolutions were
unanimously adopted:

_Resolved_, That the thanks of this Society are due and are hereby
tendered to Ashbel Woodward, M.D., of Franklin, Conn., for his very able
and interesting research upon "Wampum" this evening read before the
Society.

_Resolved_, That said paper be referred to the Publication Committee.

Attest,
HENRY PHILLIPS, JR.,
_Corresponding Secretary._

NOTE.

The following pages constitute an Essay read before the Numismatic and
Antiquarian Society of Philadelphia in January 1868. It was intended for
publication in the second volume of the Transactions of the Society, but
as the appearance of this volume has been unexpectedly delayed, it has
been thought best to allow the Essay to appear separately.

_Franklin, Conn._, January, 1878.

WAMPUM.

When Columbus, on his second voyage to the New World, landed upon Cape
Cabron, Cuba, the cacique of the adjacent