Title:
Communal hunting
Date:
ND
Scope & Content:
Typewritten transcript pertaining to communal hunting.
Various forms of the wide–spread communal hunt were found among the tribes of Southern New England. The communal hunt required sufficient men to round up the game in a given area and drive it to a designated spot where waiting hunters could kill it.
We find evidence to concludethat the Sachem of a particular tribe or band to say when and in what particular partof his hunting territory a communal hunt should be staged.
14 pages
Various forms of the wide–spread communal hunt were found among the tribes of Southern New England. The communal hunt required sufficient men to round up the game in a given area and drive it to a designated spot where waiting hunters could kill it.
We find evidence to concludethat the Sachem of a particular tribe or band to say when and in what particular partof his hunting territory a communal hunt should be staged.
14 pages
Object ID:
DOC.ND02306
Object Name:
Papers
Collection:
Hunting Il
People:
Uncas
Cassasinamon
Allumps
Aguntas
Cassasinamon
Allumps
Aguntas
Search Terms:
hunting
communal hunt
Pequot
Mohegan
Narragansett
Quinebaug
Shinnecock
communal hunt
Pequot
Mohegan
Narragansett
Quinebaug
Shinnecock