Anne Pemberton
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From: "Kevin Joel Berland" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Tuesday, February 13, 2007 9:53 AM
Subject: Re: Native American Culture


> Not  sure the alternatives are either a shovel or pulling the tubers up by 
> hand.  There's some indication in the ethnological literature that 
> tidewater nations used a digging stick before shovels or spades were 
> available--and it's my impression that digging implements were not major 
> items in the trade goods exchange (I'm willing to be corrected, of 
> course), so digging sticks would still have been used in the period. 
> Rountree's studies are essential reading.
>
> Cheers -- Kevin
>
>
>
> On Tue, 13 Feb 2007 09:40:20 -0500 Anne Pemberton               wrote:
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> I think I will have them deliver some corn to trade at Jamestown, perhaps
> three baskets of husked corn for a shovel and some pretties. The Reader 
> will
> help them negotiate the trade, since the settlers will ask for more corn 
> to
> trade for a shovel. John Smith may be involved in the trade.
>
> The shovel is to be used in harvesting the tubers from the swamp, that are
> used for flour when corn isn't available. Without a shovel, the women are
> using brute strength to pull out the tubers.
>
> With the advice from Helen Rountree's article, I will have breakfast from
> the stew pot, and, after their return from the corn trade, they will 
> butcher
> meat to add to the stew pot.
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