Round his waist his belt of wampum. --Longfellow.
Girded with his wampum braid. --Whittier.
Note: These beads were of two kinds, one white, and the other
black or dark purple. The term wampum is properly
applied only to the white; the dark purple ones are
called suckanhock. See {Seawan}. ``It [wampum]
consisted of cylindrical pieces of the shells of
testaceous fishes, a quarter of an inch long, and in
diameter less than a pipestem, drilled . . . so as to
be strung upon a thread. The beads of a white color,
rated at half the value of the black or violet, passed
each as the equivalent of a farthing in transactions
between the natives and the planters.'' --Palfrey.