A Key Into the Language of America, or an Help to the Language of the Natives in That Part of America Called New-England: Together with Briefe Observations of the Customes, Manners, and Worships, &c. of the Aforesaid Natives, etc.Williams, Roger
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A Key Into the Language of America, or an Help to the Language of the Natives in That Part of America Called New-England: Together with Briefe Observations of the Customes, Manners, and Worships, &c. of the Aforesaid Natives, etc.
Williams, Roger
Narragansett Indians; Narragansett language
Acòh, Their Deere skin.
Tummóckquashunck, A Beavers coat.
Nkéquashunck, An Otters coat.
Mohéwonck, A Rakoone-skin coat.
Natóquashunch, A Wolves-skin coat.
Mishannéquashunck, A Squirril-skin coat.
Neyhommaûashunck, a coat or Mantle,
curiously made of the fairest feathers of their Neyhommaûog or
Turkies, which commonly their old Men make; and is with them as
velvet with us.
Maúnek: nquittiashíagat, An English Coat or Mantell.
Cáudnish, Put off.
Ocquash, Put on.
Neesashíagat, Two coats.
Shwíshiagat, Three coats.
Piuckquashiágat, Ten coats, &c.
Obs: Within their skin or coat they creepe contentedly, by day or
night, in house, or in the woods, and sleep soundly, counting it
a felicitie, (as indeed an earthly one it is;) _Intra pelliculam
quemque tenere suam_, That every man be content with his skin.
Squáus aúhaqut, A Womans Mantle.
Muckíis auhaqut, A childs Mantle.
Pétacaus, An English Wastecoat.
Petacawsunnése, A little wastecoat.
Aûtah & aútawhun, Their apron.
Caukóanash, Stockins.
Nquittetiagáttash, A paire of stockins.
Mocússinass, &
Mockussinchass, Shooes.
Obs: Both these, Shoes and Stockins they make of their Deere skin
worne out; which yet being excellently tann’d by them, is excellent
for to travell in wet and snow; for it is so well tempered with
oyle, that the water cleane wrings out; and being hang’d up in their
chimney, they presently drie without hurt as myselfe hath often
proved.
Noonacominash, Too little.
Taubacóminash, Big enough.
Saunketíppo, or, Ashónaquo, A hat or Cap.
} The skin of a great beast
Moôse, } as big as an Ox, some
} call it a red Deere.
Wussuckhósu, Painted.
They also commonly paint these Moose and Deere skins for their
Summer wearing, with varietie of formes and colours.
Petouwássinug, Their Tobacco-bag,
which hangs at their necke, or sticks at their girdle, which is to
them instead of an English pocket.
Obs: Our English clothes are so strange unto them, and their bodies
inured so to endure the weather, that when (upon gift &c.) some of
them have had English cloathes, yet in a showre of raine, I have seen
them rather expose their skins to the wet, than their cloaths, and
therefore pull them off, and keep them drie.
Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.
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