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Chapters on the ethnology of the Powhatan tribes of Virginia (1928)

Speck, Frank Gouldsmith, 1881-1950, Museum of the American Indian, Heye Foundation · New York : Museum of the American Indian, Heye Foundation · leaf 115

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POWHATAN TRIBES 325 presence of archeological refuse attests a former Indian family settlement. On the opposite shore of the river is Coosiak. Opposite the reservation is Rickahock, a name common to each of the four rivers of tidewater Virginia at some particular reach of its course. Below still on… … Fig. 49. — Big bend in Pamunkey river; Uttamussak in the distance. name Uttamussak, an old name appearing in the records as Powhatan's ''temple" site and marked on Captain Smith's map of 1608. On Mattaponi river are similar locality names, and again on Chicka- hominy and James rivers. Some of those…

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