Note 230 — THE WAMPANOAGS IN THE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY An Ethnohistorical Study
Reading edition
Gookin, p. 153; Verrazano in Howe, pp. 15, 59; MOURT’S RELATION, p. 194, mentions painted faces “with crosses, and some other antic works....” This could be actual painting in patterns or a mistaking of tattoos for paint.