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functions. Throughout its history, however, there was never any occasion 
when the rules were broken, so that the wampum record remains exactly 
as when it was first put together, with no dark bead intercalated among 
the white. 
The second, fourth, and fifth of the long white strings, counting from 
the left, represent the three “sisters”, A, B, and C, respectively. If A had 
misconducted herself a dark bead would have been intercalated in the first 
white string; if B had misconducted herself, in the third white string; and 
if C had misconducted herself, in the sixth white string. 
