[284] “Two families will live comfortably and lovingly in a little round house of some fourteen or sixteen foot over, and so more and more families in proportion”; Williams, pp. 60-61. However, according to Gookin, they might go up to 40 feet in diameter: “These houses they make of several sizes, according to their activity and ability; some twenty, some forty feet long, and broad.” Gookin, pp. 149-50. [285] Champlain, p. 117. [286] MOURT’S RELATION, p. 144; Williams, p. 67. [287] Morton, pp. 134-35, says that they place the mats of their houses “... leaving severall places for dores, according as the winde sitts.” [288] Williams, p. 67. [289] Morton, pp. 134-35. [290] Their manufacture is discussed more fully in a previous section on textiles. [291] Williams, p. 67. [292] Gookin, pp. 149-50. [293] Ibid. [294] Williams, p. 61. [295] Gookin, pp. 149-50; Champlain in Howe, pp. 117, 133-34; Morton, pp. 134-135; MOURT’S RELATION, p. 144. [296] Wood, pp. 105-6. [297] Williams, p. 163. The sachem’s house is called by a different name from that of an ordinary dwelling; Winslow, p. 317. [298] Wood, p. 98. [299] Williams, p. 189. These would probably have varied considerably depending on whether it was a single hunter or two that was being housed or whether the whole family made the move. As mentioned earlier, both patterns were followed. Structures housing single hunters could have been mere lean-to’s or something like the bark _wickiup_ used to the north. When a family was living in the hunting camp, there would have been women to carry up the mats, and the house was probably more elaborate; it may have been built in the usual hemispherical plan. [300] Rowlandson, p. 50; Williams, p. 194. [301] Williams, pp. 60-61, 114. [302] Ibid., pp. 211-12; E. L. Butler, “Sweat Houses in the Southern New England Area,” BULLETIN OF THE MASSACHUSETTS ARCHAEOLOGICAL SOCIETY, VII (October, 1945), p. 12. [303] Williams, pp. 60-61; Willoughby, pp. 244-45. “Embroidery” might also refer to designs that were woven into the mats. [304] Gookin, p. 150. [305] Ibid.; Morton, pp. 135-37. [306] Gookin, p. 150; Champlain in Howe, pp. 133-34; Morton, pp. 135-37. [307] Gookin, p. 150; Morton, pp. 135-37. Kinds of skins mentioned for this purpose are: deer, bear, otter, beaver, racoon. [308] Gookin, p. 151. [309] Ibid.; Wood, p. 75. [310] MOURT’S RELATION, pp. 144-45; Williams, p. 65. [311] Gookin, p. 151; MOURT’S RELATION, pp. 144-45. [312] Morton, pp. 135-37. [313] Ibid. [314] MOURT’S RELATION, pp. 144-45; Willoughby, 292. [315] Morton, pp. 135-37. [316] “... we found also two or three deer’s heads, one whereof had been newly killed, for it was still fresh. There was also a company of deer’s feet stuck up in the house, hart’s horns, and eagles’ claws, and sundry such like things there was; also two or three baskets full of parched acorns, pieces of fish, and a piece of a broiled herring”; MOURT’S RELATION, pp. 144-45. Willoughby, p. 248.