Ways of Paying in the New Netherlands, at Dutch Guiana and in the Former Dutch Colonies of Britisch Guiana

When the Dutch established the New Netherlands in America, it was natural that their first way of bargaining with the Indians should be by exchange of natural objects, and by using, at least 'at first, the Indian way of paying.But it is peculiar that, relatively, these native ways of paying remained in use for a long time, not only between colonist and Indians, but also among the colonists themselves.No description how the Indian /'money/, the beads were made from clam shells will be given here.The beads were called sea wan (of which the Dutch made: //zeewant") by the Indians of Manhattan, also //wampun// (from one of the New England Indian dialects according to Prof. A. J. Chamberlain).Yet to this time the wampun is used for payment in the United States, as Dr. Dorsey showed to the members of the Congress of Americanists in the Field Columbian Museum at Chicago, namely by the Porno tribe in California.Wampun was also used for embroidery and ornamentation, and in record belts.The following extract may give an idea of their interest in the New Netherlands, (see the records of New Amsterdam, Vol.I, 1897 Translation of the Minutes of the Court of Burgomasters and Schepeus

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