The Wampanoags in the seventeenth century : $b An ethnohistorical surveyMarten, Catherine
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The Wampanoags in the seventeenth century : $b An ethnohistorical survey
Marten, Catherine
Indians of North America -- New England -- History -- 17th century; Wampanoag Indians
Contains letters by John Eliot dating about 1651, with information
on becoming a powow, dreams, and the succession of powows.
71. Wilder, H.H., “Notes on the Indians of Southern Massachusetts,”
AMERICAN ANTHROPOLOGIST, ns., Vol. XXV, 1923, pp. 197-218.
This contains some information on the excavation of burials, plus
an attempt at reconstruction of how the face of an Indian might
have looked, based upon skeletal features.
72. Williams, Roger, A KEY INTO THE LANGUAGE OF AMERICA: OR AN HELP
TO THE LANGUAGE OF THE NATIVES IN THAT PART OF AMERICA, CALLED NEW
ENGLAND (Providence: The Narragansett Club) Vol. 1, Ser. 1, 1866.
Originally published in 1643, this is a basic source on all aspects
of Indian culture. Concern is mainly with the Narragansetts.
73. Willoughby, C. C., “The Adze and the Ungrooved Axe of the New
England Indians,” AMERICAN ANTHROPOLOGIST, ns. Vol. IX, 1907, pp.
296-306.
Contains both historic and prehistoric data. Same material is found
in Willoughby, 1935. Perhaps useful in separating historic and
prehistoric forms.
74. Willoughby, Charles C., ANTIQUITIES OF THE NEW ENGLAND INDIANS
(Cambridge: the Peabody Museum of American Archaeology and Ethnology,
Harvard University) 1935.
The area covered here is the entirety of New England, so caution
must be exercised in selecting information to avoid bringing in
details not applicable to the Plymouth area. The relevant section
is that called, “The Later Algonquian Group”. Information covers
textiles, wooden dishes, shell beads, and burials and grave
goods. The sub-section on “General Culture of the Historic New
England Tribes”, has both relevant and irrelevant information—the
discussions of wampum and fortifications are worthy of note. The
archaeology contained in the rest of the book seems rather out of
date, and the conclusions as to the source of copper are wrong.
Illustrations that pertain to historic artifacts are worth looking
at. This book has the advantage of being the major and last of the
author’s works concerning the New England area, and information
contained in earlier articles (of which there are several) can be
found here.
75. Willoughby, C. C., “Certain Earthworks of Eastern Massachusetts,”
AMERICAN ANTHROPOLOGIST, ns., Vol. XIII, 1911, pp. 566-76.
The information also appears in Willoughby, 1935, where the author
has revised his thinking on the nature of some of the earthworks;
that source, therefore is better consulted than this.
76. Willoughby, C. C., “Dress and Ornaments of the New England
Indians,” AMERICAN ANTHROPOLOGIST, ns., Vol. VII, 1905, pp. 499-508.
All information is covered in Willoughby, 1935.
77. Willoughby, C. C., “Houses and Gardens of the New England
Indians,” AMERICAN ANTHROPOLOGIST, ns., VIII, 1906, pp. 115-32.
All information covered in Willoughby, 1935.
Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.
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