The Wampanoags in the seventeenth century

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Another introduction from European culture was alcohol, previously unknown to the Wampanoags and their neighbors. This became a popular item of trade, and some Indians undertook...

=Work in Skins=: Most of the clothing worn by the Wampanoags was made from the skins of animals. Deerskin was an excellent material for clothing, since it was tough but thin eno...

=Woodworking=: The Wampanoags were noted for their skill in woodworking. They made dugout canoes which might be as much as fifty feet long.[261] To make a canoe a suitable tree...

For water travel, either the birch bark or the dugout canoe was used. The bark canoe was probably preferred for travel on inland waterways, since portages could be made with gre...

Babies were soothed by the lullabies of their mothers.[457] It is said that they were generally very quiet infants and cried little. The Wampanoags were extremely fond of their...

Among the Wampanoags, names had supernatural significance. “Obscure and mean persons amongst them....” had no names.[556] Probably such persons were resident non-members of the...

[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,...

[378] Williams, p. 197. The Europeans whose writings provide most of the information about Wampanoag culture thought such gatherings were occasions for communion with the devil,...

Discusses shell and stone hoes and spades that might have been used by the Indians in historic times. Information it contains is better gotten in entirety from original sources...