Hypertext Webster Gateway: "Seawan"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Seawan \Sea"wan\, Seawant \Sea"want\, n.
The name used by the Algonquin Indians for the shell beads
which passed among the Indians as money.
Note: Seawan was of two kinds; wampum, white, and suckanhock,
black or purple, -- the former having half the value of
the latter. Many writers, however, use the terms seawan
and wampum indiscriminately. --Bartlett.
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