Originally published in 1622, this is a basic source for Wampanoag culture in all aspects; also contains the accounts of earliest Pilgrim dealings with the Indians.
52. Murdock, George Peter, ETHNOGRAPHIC BIBLIOGRAPHY OF NORTH AMERICA, 2nd. Edition (New Haven: Human Relations Area Files) 1953.
Contains a list of all published sources on North American Indians through 1953. All sources that are relevant to the Plymouth area are included in the present list.
53. Pory, John, JOHN PORY’S LOST DESCRIPTION OF PLYMOUTH (Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Company) 1918.
——also in James, THREE VISITORS, etc.
Description of Indians is brief and relates mostly to interrelationships with English—trade, hostilities, etc. What comments there are on culture also pertain to Indians outside the Plymouth area; no information is included that is not gotten better from other sources.
54. Potter, E.R., “Early History of Narragansetts,” COLLECTIONS OF THE RHODE ISLAND HISTORICAL SOCIETY, Vol. III (Providence: Marshall Brown, and Company) 1835.
A compilation of historical data on the Narragansetts. The main ethnographic source is Williams. There is considerable data on Indian-colonial dealings from town records.
55. Prince, J.D., “The Last Living Echoes of the Natick,” AMERICAN ANTHROPOLOGIST, ns., Vol. IX, 1907, pp. 493-98.
Concerns a few remaining Indians during the early 20th. century, living in Mashpee on Cape Cod; the recollections of old people. There is also some collected vocabulary.