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 162
372 ETHNOLOGY OF THE habit of some of the women in preferring to scale their shad with a stone scraper instead of a metal knife — a custom of survival from their stone age. Specimens obtained from old fish-houses and one still in use by the wife of Chief Cook are shown in fig. 76. Mrs. Cook had… … geon, oysters, and of recent years carp and Fig. 75. — Fossil vertebra used by Mattaponi fishermen as a charm. yellow catfish, a- Height, 4 in. (9/7742) bound in Pamunkey and Mattaponi rivers. In both bands there are sayings in reference to the river as a food supply. At Mattaponi it is said, ''The…
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