[104] D. Bushnell, Jr., “The Sloane Collection in the British Museum,” AMERICAN ANTHROPOLOGIST, ns., VIII (1906), p. 675. [105] Gookin, p. 150; Williams, p. 40. [106] Gookin, pp. 150-51; Williams, p. 40; Wood, p. 76. [107] Williams, p. 40. [108] Ibid., pp. 120-22; Gookin, pp. 150-51. [109] Williams, p. 122. [110] Ibid., p. 121. [111] Ibid., p. 120. [112] Ibid.; no description of the process is given. [113] Including snakes. John Brereton’s narrative in SAILORS NARRATIVES OF VOYAGES ALONG THE NEW ENGLAND COAST 1524-1624, George Parker Winship, ed. (Boston, 1905), p. 50. [114] This is the conclusion reached by Bennett after a study of the subject, and the current writer could not find reference to its use by Indians of the area either; Bennett, p. 384. [115] Bennett estimates that 65% of the caloric intake was provided by corn; Ibid., p. 394. [116] Wood, pp. 75-76. [117] Ibid., p. 77; Williams, p. 136. [118] Williams, p. 120. [119] Martin Pring, “The Voyage of Martin Pring” in SAILORS NARRATIVES—, George Parker Winship, ed. (Boston, 1905), p. 56. This combined with the evidence of periodic scarcity provided by the existence of “starvation foods” and the evidence for large gatherings of people to take fish during their spring runs, suggests that there was a fairly heavy dietary dependence upon fish from early spring until the time the corn ripened. [120] Morton, p. 137. [121] Wood, p. 76. [122] Ibid., pp. 75-76. [123] Ibid. [124] Leach, p. 137. [125] Williams, p. 40; Wood, p. 76. [126] Morton, p. 137; Wood, p. 77. [127] Bennett, p. 395. [128] Ibid. [129] Williams, pp. 72-73. [130] Ibid. [131] Brereton, p. 38. [132] Williams, pp. 72-73. [133] Ibid., p. 100. [134] Ibid., p. 43; The use of tobacco by women is listed by Flannery as a southern New England trait. [135] Ibid. [136] Wood, p. 73. [137] Ibid., p. 101; Williams, p. 145. [138] Williams, p. 145. [139] Morton, p. 142; Wood, p. 73. [140] “... they have likewise another sort of mantles, made of Mose skinnes, which beast is a great large Deere so bigge as a horse; these skinnes they commonly dress bare, and make them wondrous white.”; Morton, pp. 142-43. [141] Probably the material used for this embroidery was moose hair and/or porcupine quills as was done by the Algonquians living farther north. The information about the style of this decoration is not very extensive: “... in forme like lace set on by a Taylor ... of severall fashions very curious, according to the several fantasies of the workmen, wherein they strive to excell one another....”; Morton, pp. 142-43; Williams, p. 145; Wood, p. 101. [142] Morton, p. 143. [143] Gookin, p. 152; Wood, p. 73. [144] Morton, p. 141. [145] Ibid., pp. 135-37. [146] Ibid., p. 143; Williams, p. 40; Willoughby, p. 239; Wood, p. 76.