Wampum and beaver pelts were considered currency. Various items played the role of currency, such as copper, wampum and beaver pelts. The Covenant Chain is embodied in the Two Row Wampum of the Iroquois. The Shinnecock Indians are very closely tied to wampum. The women often wore headbands of dyed deer hair or wampum. The Lenape name for Long Island is "Sewanacky", reflecting its connection to the dark wampum. The Seneca Nation commissioned replicas of five historic wampum belts completed in 2008. Megissogwon was the spirit of wealth, protected by an armoured shirt of wampum beads. When she had dressed herself, her work was to make girdles of wampum and beads. Only the coastal tribes had sufficient access to the basic shells to make wampum. There they fished, swam and collected oysters and clamshells used to make wampum. In New York, wampum beads have been discovered dating before 1510. They also used wampum belts to write down important messages. They also used their wampum to trade with the Europeans. The Pequots controlled the wampum and fur trades with the Europeans.