[155] Willoughby, p. 248.
[156] Gookin, p. 151; Wood, p. 107.
[157] Willoughby, pp. 244-45.
[158] Samuel Champlain’s narrative in SAILOR’S NARRATIVES—, George Parker Winship, ed. (Boston, 1905), p. 90.
[159] Gookin, p. 152; Morton, pp. 142-43.
[160] This is the technique for making similar garments used by other American Indian groups.
[161] Morton, pp. 134-35; Wood, p. 30.
[162] Willoughby, pp. 244-45.
[163] Ibid.; Gookin, p. 152.
[164] Gookin, p. 151; MOURT’S RELATION, pp. 144-45. “From the tree where the bark grows, they make severall sorts of baskets, great and small. Some will hold four bushels, or more: and so downward, to a pint. In their baskets they put their provisions. Some of their baskets are made of rushes; some, of bents; others of maize husks: others, of a kind of silk grass: others of a kind of wild hemp: and some, of barks of trees: many of them very neat and artificial, with the portraitures of birds, beasts, fishes, and flowers upon them in colours.”; Wood, p. 107.