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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> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Paul Finkelman"  
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> 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
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>> 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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