66. Thatcher, James, HISTORY OF THE TOWN OF PLYMOUTH, FROM ITS FIRST SETTLEMENT IN 1620, TO THE PRESENT TIME: WITH A CONCISE HISTORY OF THE ABORIGINES OF NEW ENGLAND AND THEIR WARS WITH THE ENGLISH, &C. (Boston: Marsh, Capen & Lyon) 1835.
Brief cultural summary includes diet, division of labor, appearance, housing, attitude toward children, effects of strong drink, treatment of captives, and the general character of Indians. For its brevity it is quite complete, albeit non-analytical. Includes history of Indian-Pilgrim contacts. Covers King Philip’s War. Includes Indian anecdotes and sketches of character and activities of some of the more well-known Indians of the 17th. century.
67. Trumbull, J.H., “Natick Dictionary,” BULLETIN OF THE BUREAU OF AMERICAN ETHNOLOGY, XXV, 1903.
Linguistic material. No ethnographic data.
68. Vaughan, Alden T., NEW ENGLAND FRONTIER: PURITANS AND INDIANS 1620-1675 (Boston: Little, Brown and Company) 1965.
This is a history of relations between Indians and colonists, taken from the point of view of the colonists. The section relevant to a study of Wampanoag culture is the introductory chapter on general Algonquian culture for the New England area. A most articulate and applicable summary, it is basic reading for a general background in Indian culture of the region.
69. Verrazano’s Narrative (contained in H. Howe, PROLOGUE TO NEW ENGLAND).
This narrative represents the first account of contact with Algonquians of the Plymouth region—area concerned is Narragansett Bay, date is 1524. Information on general appearance and notation of dwellings that do not fit the expected pattern for wigwam construction.
70. Whitfield, Henry, compiler, “The Light Appearing More and More Towards the Perfect day or, A Farther Discovery of the Present State of the Indians in New England, Concerning the Progresse of the Gospel Amongst Them,” MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL SOCIETY COLLECTIONS, Series 3, Vol. IV.
Contains letters by John Eliot dating about 1651, with information on becoming a powow, dreams, and the succession of powows.