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WAMPAPIN WAMPUM 



[b. a. e. 



tribe, to form a combination of all the 

 Indians from Merrimac r. to the 

 Thames for the purpose of driving out or 

 exterminating the whites. The war, 

 which began in 1675 and lasted 2 years, 

 was the most destructive in the history 

 of New England and was most disastrous 

 to the Indians. Philip and the leading 

 chiefs were killed, the Wampanoag and 

 Narraganset were practically extermi- 

 nated, and the survivors fled to the inte- 

 rior tribes. Many of those who surren- 

 dered were sold into slavery, and others 

 joined the various Praying villages in s. 

 Massachusetts. The greater part of the 

 Wampanoag who remained in the coun- 

 try joined the Saconnet. The Indians 

 of C. Cod and Martha's Vineyard gen- 

 erally remained faithful to the whites, 

 the latter persistently refusing to comply 

 with Philip's solicitations to join him in 

 the contest. 



The principal village of the Wampa- 

 noag, where the head chief resided, was 

 Pokanoket. Other villages probably be- 

 longing to the tribe were Acushnet, 

 Agawam, Assameekg, Assawompset, As- 

 sonet, Betty's Neck, Chaubaqueduck, 

 Coaxet, Cohannet, Cooxissett, Cowsump- 

 sit. Gay head. Herring Pond, Jones River, 

 Kitteaumut, Loquasquscit, Mattakeset, 

 Mattapoiset, Miacomit, Munponset, Na- 

 masket, Nashamoiess, Nashanekammuck, 

 Nukkehkummees, Nunnepoag, Ohkon- 

 kemme, Pachade, Pocasset, Quittaub, 

 Saconnet, Saltwater Pond, Sanchecan- 

 tacket, Seconchqut, Shawomet, Shim- 

 moah, Talhanio, Toikiming, Wauchimo- 

 qut, Wawayontat. (j. m.) 



Massasoits.— Dee in Smith (1629), Va., ii, 229, 

 repr. 1819. Massasowat. — Ibid. Uassasoyts. — 

 Mourt (1622) in Mass. Hist. Soc. Coll., 1st s., viii, 

 226, 1802. Fawkunnawkutts. — Chase in Smith- 

 son. Rep. for 1883. 881, 1885. Philip's Indians.— 

 Trumbull, Conn., 1, 221, 1818. Wampangs.— Writer 

 of 1676, quoted by Drake, Ind. Chron., 125, 1836. 

 Wampano. — McKenney and Hall, Ind. Tribes, in, 

 80, 1854. Wampanoags. — Niles (ca. 1761) in Mass. 

 Hist.Soc.Coll.,3ds., VI, 190,1837. Wam-pa-no-gas.— 

 Macaulev, N. Y., n, 162, 1829. Wainpanooucks.— 

 Writer of 1675 in Mass. Hist. Soc. Coll., 3d s., I, 

 67, 1825. Wampeage. — Record (1653) quoted by 

 Macauley, N. Y., ii, 353, 1829. Wamponoags.— 

 Writer of 1807 in Mass. Hist. Soc. Coll., 2d s., in, 

 83, 1815. Wapenocks.— Le Laet (1640) in N. Y. Hist. 

 Soc. Coll., 2d s., I, 294, 1841. Whampinages.— 

 Brinley (1658) in Mass. Hist. Soc. Coll., 1st s., v, 

 217, 1816. Wompanaoges.— Ibid., x, 15-20, 1809. 

 "Wompanoag. — Oliver {ca. 1675) quoted by Drake, 

 Bk. Inds., bk. iii, 35, 1848. Womponoags.— Hoyt, 

 Antiq. Res., 112, 1824. 



Warn pap in. A name for the water 

 chinquapin, Nelumbo lutea, corrupted from 

 wankipin, 'crooked root,' the Chippewa 

 name for the long, nodose rootstock of 

 the plant, which after being boiled to 

 destroy its acidity is used as food. It is 

 called tarawa and taluwa, 'hollow root,' 

 by the Oto and Quapaw. The name is 

 still further corrupted in the West to 

 yankapin. (w. r. q.) 



Wampatuck ('goose'). A Massachuset 



chief of the country s. of Boston, Mass., 

 a son of Chickataubut (q. v. ), from whom 

 the English purchased much land. He 

 was killed in 1669 in a battle with the 

 Mohawk. (a. f. c.) 



Wampeag. See Peag, Wampum. 



Wampee. A name used in parts of the 

 Southern states for the pickerel-weed ( Pon- 

 tederia caudata). Gerard (Garden and 

 Forest, July 26, 1896) says that the term 

 wampee was applied by Drayton in 1802 to 

 the Indian turnip (Arisaema triphyllum), 

 and by Rafinesque in 1830 to Feltandra 

 alba. (a. f. c. ) 



Wamping. A former village, Mohican 

 or Wappinger, on the lower Hudson r., 

 N. Y. , under Iroquois protection. — Albany 

 treaty ( 1664) in N. Y. Doc. Col. Hist., iii, 

 68, 1853. 



Wampoose. The American elk, Cervus 

 americana, called also gray moose and 

 wapiti; an animal about the size of a 

 horse and strikingly similar to the stag of 

 Europe. It was formerly extensively dis- 

 tributed throughout the present limits of 

 the United States, but is now confined 

 mostly to the n. and n. w. portions. The 

 name is of Abnaki origin, from wanbus or 

 wanpus, 'white moose'; the Algonquians 

 making no distinction between white and 

 gray. (w. r. g. ) 



Wampum (the contracted form of New 

 England Algonquian ivampHmpeak, wam- 

 pumpeage, or wampdmpeag, expressed pho- 

 netically as wanpanpiak or wanbanbiag, the 

 component lexical elements of which are 

 wamp, for ivanb, a derivative of wab, '(be- 

 ing) white'; uiape or ompe, for a^bi or 

 anpi., 'a string (of shell-beads) ' ; a^ or ag, 

 the grammatic sign of the animate plural. 

 As the native expression was too cumber- 

 some for ready utterance by the New 

 England colonists, the sentence-word was 

 divided by them into wampum, and peak 

 or peage, regardless of the exact line of 

 phonetic division between the component 

 lexical elements of the expression ) . The 

 shell beads in use among the North Amer- 

 ican Indians, wrought out of several kinds 

 of shells found along both the western 

 and the eastern littorals of the continent, 

 including various species of Veneridse, as 

 the poquaiihaHg (Yenns mercenaria), usu- 

 ally contracted to quahaug or quahog, for- 

 merly sometimes called hens, the common 

 round or hard-shell clam, which in the S. 

 sometimes attains a weight of 4 pounds; 

 the periwinkle ( Pyrula carica and P. ca- 

 naliculata), or winkle, the meteauhock of 

 Roger Williams; the whelk (Buccinum 

 undatum) ; fresh-water shells of the genua 

 Unio; and, on the Pacific coast, the Den- 

 talium (D. entalis, and D. indianorum), 

 the abalone or haliotis (H. rufescens, H. 

 splendens, and H. cracherodii), the scal- 

 lop shells or pec tens, and the olivella (O. 



