\Sea"wan\, Seawant \Sea"want\, n.
The name used by the Algonquin Indians for the shell beads
which passed among the Indians as money.
Note: Seawan was of two kinds; wampum, white, and suckanhock,
      black or purple, -- the former having half the value of
      the latter. Many writers, however, use the terms seawan
      and wampum indiscriminately. --Bartlett.