Identifier: antiquitiesofsou00jone_0 (find matches)
Title: Antiquities of the southern Indians, particularly of the Georgia tribes
Year: 1873 (1870s)
Authors: Jones, Charles C. (Charles Colcock), 1831-1893
Subjects: Indians of North America Indians of North America
Publisher: New York : D. Appleton and Co.
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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ad nothing which they reckoned Richesbefore the English went among them, except Peak,Poenoke, and such-like trifles made out of the GunkShell. These past with them instead of Gold and Sil-ver, and servd them both for Money and Ornament.It was the English alone that taught them first to puta value on their Skins and Furs, and to make a Tradeof them. Peak is of two sorts, or rather of two colours, forboth are made of one Shell, tho of different parts; oneis a dark Purple Cylinder, and the other a white ;they are both made in size and figure alike, and com-monly much resembling the English Puglas, but notso transparent nor so brittle. They are wrought assmooth as Glass, being one-third of an inch long, andabout a quarter, diameter, strung by a hole drilld throthe center. The dark colour is the dearest, and dis-tinguishd by the name of Wampom Peak. TheEnglish men that are calld Indian Traders value the 1 History and Present State of Virginia, book iii., chapter xii., p. 58. Lon-don, 1705.
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AM. PHOTO-LITHOGRAPH.C CO NY \ OSBORNES PROCESS I SHELL-MONEY. 503 Wampom Peak at eighteen pence per Yard, and thewhite Peak at nine pence. The Indians also makePipes of this, two or three inches long, and thickerthan ordinary, which are much more valuable. Theyalso make Buntees of the same Shell, and grind themas smooth as Peak. These are either large, like anOval Bead, and drilld the length of the Oval, or elsethey are circular and flat, almost an inch over, and onethird of an inch thick, and drilld edgeways. Of thisShell they also make round Tablets of about fourinches diameter, which they polish as smooth as theother, and sometimes they etch or grave thereon Cir-cles, Stars, a Half-Moon, or any other figure suitable totheir fancy. These they wear instead of Medals beforeor behind their Neck, and use the Peak, Buntees, andPipes for Coronets, Bracelets, Belts, or long Strings,hanging down before the Breast, or else they lacetheir Garments with them, and adorn their Toma-hawks and ev

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