Note 323 — THE WAMPANOAGS IN THE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY An Ethnohistorical Study

If, as reports indicate, twelve to twenty men went out from each summer village in the fall to their hunting camps, and it may be assumed that these represent most of all the able-bodied adult male population, then we would seem to be dealing with summer village populations whose total numbers would equal in size the population of a winter longhouse. It might further be surmised that the personnel of each are identical; in other words, the same group of 40 to 50 people may have formed a camping-together unit for most of the year, living together in the same longhouse in winter and camping near each other as a summer village.