Thanks to Lyle, on the list, and Lee, in private email, for explanations
that will change the outline of my story. Lee forwarded the piece from JSTOR
that I had no idea how I would get it. It is a gold-mine for my children's
story!
By comparison, fishing by hook and line is a long, lazy occupation, to the
net or penning of fish. I remember when there were "pound poles" supporing
large nets to catch fish in the Chesapeake bay. There was always good hook
and line fishing on the coming tide side of the "pound poles". Alas, they
disappeared a few years ago - I have no idea why. I understand from a museum
in Yorktown (Mariners'?, just under the York bridge), that this method of
fishing was taught to Mathews folks by a buy from New York, who lived there
for a while, and without having his contribution put to his name, returned
north.
Anne
Anne Pemberton
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Lyle E. Browning" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Sunday, February 11, 2007 8:56 PM
Subject: Re: Native American Culture
> Regarding fishing, the drawings of DeBry and White done for the first
> settlements at Roanoke Island, NC show netting as the primary method,
> with spearing as the second. Hook and line was not something shown, if I
> remember correctly. With nets, the yields are far greater and that's
> what's needed in a village. The methods of fishing appear to have been
> taught by the Powhatans to the English as one can transpose directly all
> the net types from DeBry to those in use in the middle of the 20th
> century by commercial fishermen on the James and Chickahominy Rivers.
>
> Beads were also a different matter. These appear to have uniformly been a
> high status item until the English flooded the market with them whereupon
> they became worthless. Copper items were also in high demand early on,
> until again, idiots flooded the market. Smith remarked on that with
> disgust in his writings.
>
> Lyle Browning
>
>
> On Feb 11, 2007, at 7:45 PM, Anne Pemberton wrote:
>
>> Thank you Paul and Nancy for your help. I will check the Jamestown site.
>> I also found there is something useful on Native women in a journal in
>> JSTOR, but I have no idea how I could access it from home.
>>
>> My stories (as some of you know) are personalized to the Reader. In this
>> story, the Reader will don his/her History Hat and arrive on the James
>> River between the Powhatan village and Jamestown in mid- summer of 1609.
>> I know my blackberries are ready usually around the 4th of July, but
>> know nothing of other berries. The Reader will arrive at sunup, and go
>> west to the Powhatan village, meet Pocahontas in the village garden
>> picking summer squash for breakfast. They will go to the village and
>> help cook the squash and eat it, then pack a basket full of dried corn
>> and together carry it to Jamestown to trade. The Reader will help
>> Pocahontas make a good trade, perhaps getting some fish hooks in
>> addition to shiny beads, and maybe also a pot, and perhaps a wooden toy.
>> Since Pocahontas is 14-15 by then, and budding, she will don a shirt
>> given her by John Smith to wear in Jamestown so the men don't say crude
>> things to her. The Reader and Pocahontas will head back to the village,
>> stopping along the way to swim in the river, gather some rushes to make
>> baskets, and maybe catch a few fish with the new fish hooks and some
>> worms. They will continue back to the village, add the fish to the
>> village supplies for supper. Then they will play for awhile, with the
>> other Indian children.
>> I know that colonial children could have played hopscotch, but I'm not
>> sure what games, that a reader could recognize or understand, that the
>> Indian children would play. Dinner would be as the sun is going down,
>> and after a hearty stew of meat and roots, Reader would press the HOME
>> button on his/her History Hat and return to the current time.
>>
>> If anyone sees hole or improvements on this outline, I hope they will
>> say so.
>>
>> There will be music background to the story. I have already used Colors
>> of the Wind on another project, so I will be looking for something
>> different. I am open to suggestions. It should be in public domain and
>> hopefully in midi or MP3.
>>
>> Thanks to any and all help, and an extra thanks to those who tell me
>> where I am tripping up.
>>
>> Anne
>>
>>
>> Anne Pemberton
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>> http://www.educationalsynthesis.org
>> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Paul Finkelman"
>> <[log in to unmask]>
>> To: <[log in to unmask]>
>> Sent: Sunday, February 11, 2007 7:19 PM
>> Subject: Re: Native American Culture
>>
>>
>>> lots of seafood (oysters, clams, crabs; and remember at this time there
>>> were elk, bison and probably moose in Va.
>>>
>>> Paul Finkelman
>>> President William McKinley Distinguished Professor of Law
>>> and Public Policy
>>> Albany Law School
>>> 80 New Scotland Avenue
>>> Albany, New York 12208-3494
>>>
>>> 518-445-3386
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>>>>>> [log in to unmask] 02/11/07 6:39 PM >>>
>>> Folks,
>>>
>>> I am starting a new story for children and it will be about spending a
>>> day
>>> with Pocahontas in the summer of 1609. I believe Pocahontas would have
>>> been
>>> 14 or 15 by then, and John Smith still in the colony???
>>>
>>> I am wondering what young Native Americans drank with their meals.
>>> Water?
>>> Did the press juice from berries and fruit?
>>>
>>> Also, does anyone know if there was any husbandry among the Powhatans?
>>> Did
>>> they keep chickens for eggs? Gather eggs from ducks? Never eat eggs?
>>> Cook
>>> eggs hard or fried?
>>>
>>> I am, as you may recall, a long way from a library (and can no longer
>>> drive
>>> on the Interstate) and on limited means, so borrowing or buying books
>>> is
>>>
>>> tough. Following internet links to sources is my favorite way of doing
>>> research. Email addresses are also helpful, if you just know someone
>>> who
>>>
>>> knows.
>>>
>>> Thanks for any help on the Pocahontas' diet in the summer months.
>>>
>>> Anne
>>>
>>>
>>> Anne Pemberton
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