Note 164 — THE WAMPANOAGS IN THE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY An Ethnohistorical Study

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.