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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 44

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ts, quail, and squir- Fig. II. — Net floats. rels were hunted. Strangely enough, though probably from climatic causes, the woodchuck and the partridge (Bonasa umbellus) are missing from this locality. The only vestiges of native hunting devices are the degenerated bows and Fig. 12. — Paddle for… … Fig. 13. — Bows. of the older men, however, they were regularly carried by children who went hunting in the woods with their fathers, who of course

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