[392] Occasional unification of the group under a strong leader implies that there were also occasions when it was not so unified, meaning that centralized authority for all Wampanoags as a body was not institutionalized. [393] Winslow, pp. 360-61. [394] During the early years of European settlement at Plymouth a sachem called Corbitant was dissatisfied with Massasoit’s friendship with the settlers and plotted to overthrow him. [395] Winslow, pp. 360-61; Wood, p. 89. [396] Eliot, p. 139; Gookin, p. 154. [397] Winslow, pp. 360-61. [398] Ibid.; Altham, p. 29; Morton, p. 154. [399] Winslow, pp. 361-62. [400] Wood, p. 90. [401] Winslow, p. 362. [402] Gookin, p. 154; Williams, p. 164; Wood, p. 90. [403] Winslow, pp. 288, 359-60. [404] Morton, p. 149; Williams, pp. 152-53. [405] Ibid. [406] Possibly the “winter village band” was the group over which this official exercised authority. [407] Williams, p. 164. [408] Winslow, pp. 307-8. [409] Ibid., pp. 364-65; Williams, p. 166. [410] Winslow, pp. 307-8. [411] Ibid., p. 168. [412] Gookin, p. 149. [413] Williams, p. 102. [414] Ibid. [415] Winslow, pp. 364-65; Wood, p. 90. [416] Williams, p. 57. [417] Gookin, p. 149. [418] Winslow, p. 291; Wood, p. 90. [419] Winslow, pp. 364-65. [420] Williams, p. 166. [421] Winslow, pp. 364-65. [422] Morton, pp. 153-54. [423] Williams, p. 102; Winslow, pp. 307-8. [424] Williams, pp. 58, 68; Winslow, pp. 360-61. [425] Morton, pp. 170-71. What European observers saw as a “royal family” was probably a chiefly clan or lineage. [426] Wood, p. 74. [427] Williams, p. 163. [428] Ibid., p. 178. [429] Massasoit is said to have had five wives; Altham, p. 29; Wood, p. 91. [430] Williams, p. 68. [431] Wood, pp. 77-78. [432] Ibid.; Williams, pp. 45-46. [433] Morton, p. 137; Williams, pp. 45-46. [434] Morton, p. 137; Williams, p. 47. [435] Wood, pp. 77-78. [436] Altham, p. 29; Williams, p. 36; Wood, pp. 78-79. [437] Wood, p. 77. [438] Winslow, pp. 304-5. [439] In one case the gift presented was a basket of tobacco and some beads; Ibid., p. 307. [440] Wood, p. 91. [441] Williams, p. 169. [442] Ibid. [443] Gookin, p. 149; Winslow, p. 364. [444] Winslow, p. 364. [445] Ibid.; Williams, p. 168; Wood, p. 91. [446] Winslow, p. 364. [447] Gookin, p. 149; Rowlandson, pp. 45-47. [448] Ibid.; Wood, p. 91. [449] Thus enhancing wealth and in turn the possibilities for displays of generosity. [450] Williams, pp. 168-69. This practice is fairly common among pre-literate peoples on a world-wide basis. The reason usually given is the fear that should the mother conceive again before the child is weaned, her milk would dry up. [451] Ibid., p. 34. [452] Ibid, pp. 170-71; Morton, pp. 145-46; Winslow, p. 358. [453] Williams, p. 170. [454] Winslow, p. 358; Wood, p. 108. [455] Wood, p. 108. [456] Ibid.; Morton, p. 147. [457] Wood, p. 108. [458] Ibid. [459] Gookin, p. 149; Williams, p. 59. [460] Williams, p. 169. [461] Wood, p. 98.