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OCCASIONAL PAPERS IN OLD COLONY STUDIES/NUMBER 2/DECEMBER 1970
EDITOR: CATHERINE MARTEN
Cover Design: Eric G. Engstrom
Map: Charles McCann
Typesetting and Printing: R. E. Smith Printing Co., Inc., Fall River, Mass.
This map showing the approximate locations of the various New England tribes in the early 17th century is based upon the following sources: Harold E. Driver and William C. Massey, COMPARATIVE STUDIES OF NORTH AMERICAN INDIANS, TRANSACTIONS OF THE AMERICAN PHILOSOPHICAL SOCIETY, ns. Vol. 47, part 2, 1957; Douglas Edward Leach, FLINTLOCK AND TOMAHAWK: NEW ENGLAND IN KING PHILIP’S WAR, 1959; Charles C. Willoughby, ANTIQUITIES OF THE NEW ENGLAND INDIANS, 1935
PREFACE
The paper which follows was written by me in 1965. It was originally intended to serve as an in-house guide for Plantation staff to use when explaining Wampanoag culture to visitors. The absence of any other comprehensive treatment of Plymouth’s aboriginal population has made the paper an item much in demand by Plantation staff, visitors, and members of the academic community. Hopefully its publication in the OCCASIONAL PAPERS series will make this ethnographic information available to an even greater number of interested persons.