The Wampanoags in the seventeenth century

by Catherine Marten

[293] Ibid.

[294] Williams, p. 61.

[295] Gookin, pp. 149-50; Champlain in Howe, pp. 117, 133-34; Morton, pp. 134-135; MOURT’S RELATION, p. 144.

[296] Wood, pp. 105-6.

[297] Williams, p. 163. The sachem’s house is called by a different name from that of an ordinary dwelling; Winslow, p. 317.

[298] Wood, p. 98.

[299] Williams, p. 189. These would probably have varied considerably depending on whether it was a single hunter or two that was being housed or whether the whole family made the move. As mentioned earlier, both patterns were followed. Structures housing single hunters could have been mere lean-to’s or something like the bark wickiup used to the north. When a family was living in the hunting camp, there would have been women to carry up the mats, and the house was probably more elaborate; it may have been built in the usual hemispherical plan.

[300] Rowlandson, p. 50; Williams, p. 194.

[301] Williams, pp. 60-61, 114.

[302] Ibid., pp. 211-12; E. L. Butler, “Sweat Houses in the Southern New England Area,” BULLETIN OF THE MASSACHUSETTS ARCHAEOLOGICAL SOCIETY, VII (October, 1945), p. 12.