peag
SayPEEGUS/piɡ/UK/piːɡ/
- 1Shell beads, often strung or woven into belts, used by some Native American peoples as money, ornament, and ceremonial record.
Like money that doubled as an official record: each bead both currency and a token of an agreement.
Colonists and Native communities alike accepted peag as payment for goods.
The chief presented a broad belt of peag to seal the agreement.
Similarwampum
Note
A clipped word, cut from the back half of the Narragansett wampumpeag, the same compound whose front half gave English wampum. The two names therefore come from opposite ends of one longer word. Peag is a mass noun: you speak of a belt of peag or a quantity of peag, never of peags.
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Origin
The word comes from the latter part of the Narragansett word "wampumpeag."