ANTH 316 articles. Woodland Nations. Thomas Morton: Manners and Customs of the Indians (of New England), 1637. Modern History Sourcebook: Thomas Morton: Manners and Customs of the Indians (of New England), 1637 Of Their Houses and Habitations: The Natives of New England are accustomed to build themselves houses much like the wild Irish; they gather poles in the woods and put the great end of them in the ground, placing them in form of a circle or circumference, and, bending the tops of them in form of an arch, they bind them together with the bark of walnut trees, which is wondrous tough, so that they make the same round on the top for the smoke of their fire to ascend and pass through; these they cover with mats, some made of reeds and some of long flags, or sedge, finely sewed together with needles made of the splinter bones of a crane's leg, with threads made of their Indian hemp, which there grows naturally, leaving several places for doors, which are covered with mats, which may be rolled up and let down again at their pleasure, making use of the several doors, according as the wind sits.
Seneca Nation of Indians. Lois Scozzari, The Significance of Wampum to Seventeenth Century Indians in New England. Originally Published in The Connecticut Review.
A certain young native leader, 'Prince Philip'...had a coat on and buckskins set thick with these beads of wampum in pleasant wild works and a broad built of the same. His accoutrements were valued at twenty pounds. John Josselyn. 1663.