Note 391 — THE WAMPANOAGS IN THE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY An Ethnohistorical Study

There is no information to be gained from early accounts as to what further subdivisions of territory were made or the basis for them. One could speculate that some aspect of land tenure was based on the “winter villages”—that is, a certain territory may have been allotted to the band of co-residence groups who dwelt in adjacent longhouses during the winter.