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The Nanticoke community of Delaware (1915)

Speck, Frank Gouldsmith, 1881-1950 · New York : The Museum of the American Indian, Heye Foundation · leaf 32

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14 MUSEUM OF THE AMERICAN INDIAN paddles they resemble, excepting the remnant of the Powhatan Indians of Virginia, are the Cherokee of North Carolina, whose paddles are identical. … Fig. 4. — Small stirring paddles. A large, cumbersome, spoon-like ladle, evidently of cypress (fig. 5), was also used for stirring food in a cauldron. An individual spoon obtained from a Nanticoke near the ocean at Lewes, is made of red oak, with a bowl 3 in. wide and a handle 10 in. long. It was…

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