Note 141 — THE WAMPANOAGS IN THE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY An Ethnohistorical Study

Probably the material used for this embroidery was moose hair and/or porcupine quills as was done by the Algonquians living farther north. The information about the style of this decoration is not very extensive: “... in forme like lace set on by a Taylor ... of severall fashions very curious, according to the several fantasies of the workmen, wherein they strive to excell one another....”; Morton, pp. 142-43; Williams, p. 145; Wood, p. 101.