Wampum Belt

Garanga resistance was not attempted, but it was made with all the spirit of a warrior by young Louis, who snatched a knife from the girdle of one of the Indians, and attempted to plunge it into the bosom of Mecumeh, as he was roughly attempting to bind his wampum-belt over Garanga's mouth to deaden her screams. ❋ James Athearn Jones (N/A)

Indian, arranged by the Hudson's Bay Company, which is, like the wampum-belt, a common tongue for tribes and peoples not speaking any language but their own. ❋ Gilbert Parker (1897)

Rigaud gave them a wampum-belt, and told them that he meant to attack Corlaer, -- that is, Schenectady; at which they seemed well pleased, and sang war-songs all night. ❋ Francis Parkman (1858)

The name would then mean "He who makes the wampum-belt," and would account for the story which ascribes to ❋ Horatio Hale (1856)

The root-word of this name is _oyonwa_, wampum-belt, the same that appears in ❋ Horatio Hale (1856)

By his side -- a nobler figure, but still a counterfeit -- appeared an Indian hunter with feathery crest and wampum-belt. ❋ Nathaniel Hawthorne (1834)

I would wager, with the Sergeant's daughter here, a horn of powder against a wampum-belt for her girdle, that her father's rijiment should march by this embankment of ours and never find out the fraud! ❋ James Fenimore Cooper (1820)

_oyonwa_, wampum-belt, and _ratiehwatha_, to look for something, or, rather, to seem to seek something which we know where to find. ❋ Horatio Hale (1856)