Note 224 — THE WAMPANOAGS IN THE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY An Ethnohistorical Study
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Willoughby, p. 198, describes a group of seeds “resembling those of the Cornus” with the ends ground off preparatory to stringing. These were found archaeologically, associated with European trade beads. MOURT’S RELATION, p. 194, describes Massasoit as wearing a “great chain of white bone beads about his neck”.