Nantucket and Other Native Places: The Legacy of Elizabeth Alden Little

Index

Index 229 Accelerated mass spectrometry, 17fig, 169, 170, 182 Alden House site, 103–117 Alden Kindred of America, 105 Amphibolite, 119, 125, 126 Andrews, Clinton, 10–11 Appleton, William Sumner, 9 Archaeological investigations: Alden House site, 103–117; of areas of long-term use, 43; “Black Platform,” 126–131; Coffin Farm site, 44–47, 56; of colonial and Native Americans foodways, 103– 117; Concord (Massachusetts), 119–134; construction techniques and, 46, 47; by cultural resource management companies, 38, 39, 40; destructive methods in use at, 104, 105; determination of periods in, 128, 133; difficulty isolating components of original site in, 42; Dwelling Site at Miacomet Pond, 50–52, 57; evidence of maize, 182–187; faunal identification and, 47; food refuse pits, 47; grid system, 105, 106fig, 107, 108fig; Hughes site (Nantucket), 39; identification, evaluation, mitigation stages, 42; “Indian Planting Fields,” 119–134; inferences concerning structures, 42–44; Jethro Coffin House, 9–22; Late Archaic fire pit, 125–126; Late Woodland living floor, 119–134; maize samples in, 48, 120; in multicomponent sites, 42; on Nantucket, 25–58; by Nantucket Historical Association, 38; Native American architecture on Nantucket, 25–58; phytolith analyses in, 47, 48; Pocomo site, 39; Poison Meadow, 52–55, 57; post molds in, 42, 47, 53, 55, 130, 172, 173; Quidnet site, 40; radiocarbon dating and, 47, 48; Ram Pasture site, 39, 72; representing Precontact through Contact periods, 42–44, 48; root cellars, 107, 110fig; Sesachacha Pond, 40; Sites 19-NT-50/19NT -68, 47–50; soil flotation, 47; tool manufacturing sites, 124, 133; Top Gale site, 39; Valley View site, 52–55, 57; whaling, 72; Wild Rose Pasture site, 52–55, 57; woodspecies identification and, 47 Architecture, Native American, 25–58; absence of documentary records on, 31; archaeology of, 42–44; articulation with natural landscape, 48; ceremonial buildings, 33; community specific, 29; construction materials, 31, 43, 46, 47; construction techniques, 28, 46, 47; dimensions, 28; domestic, 27; Dwelling Site at 230 Index Architecture, Native American (continued) Miacomet Pond, 50–52; effect of amateur archaeology on, 37, 38, 119; English-style, 26, 33; fishing stages, 34; historic context for, 34–37; illusive signature of, 25; institutional structures, 26, 27, 33; interior features and use of space, 28, 42, 43; lack of information on, 25, 26, 27, 29; lines of evidence for, 26, 27; longhouses, 28, 29, 137, 138; meeting houses, 31, 32, 44, 45; menstrual houses, 29; Nantucket, 26; in Pequot territory, 28; poor preservation of, 25; prior to and after European settlement, 27; regional diversity, 25, 26; regional/local ethnohistoric records and, 26, 28–34; ridge-pole design, 48, 49, 54; schools, 32; sites, 27; sociocultural contexts, 25; sparse structural data, 25; subterranean, 34; summer houses, 29; sweat houses, 31; temporary hunting houses, 29; traditional, 26, 47; variations, 28; vernacular, 25, 26, 42–44; watch houses, 29; wigwams, 25, 26, 28, 29, 31, 33, 37, 120 Argillite, 124, 126, 129, 133 Artifacts: analysis, 3; ballast flint, 50; beads, 18; bones, 13, 16, 17; bottle glass, 45; buttons, 10; ceramic, 10, 13, 15, 111, 124; china, 13, 15; chipping debris, 13, 124, 126, 129, 133; clothing fasteners, 111; coins, 53, 54, 103; collected by amateurs, 38, 39; creamware, 10, 13, 15, 16, 17, 112; earthenware, 17, 45, 50, 53; glass, 13, 15, 19, 20, 43, 45, 46, 48, 50, 52, 53, 103, 111; gun fragments, 111; Jethro Coffin House project, 9; knives, 124; manufacturing locations of, 124; marbles, 10; mouth harp, 46; nails, 13, 17, 20, 43, 45, 46, 111; Native American, 112; Oriental fishtail, 54; pearlware, 10, 13, 15, 16; pipe fragments, 13, 16, 45, 46, 48, 50, 52, 53, 124; pitchers, 15; porcelain, 10, 13; projectile points, 13, 53, 112, 120, 122, 123, 123fig, 128, 129fig; redware, 13, 15, 17, 50, 53, 111; reflecting interior use of space, 42, 43; shells, 13, 16, 17; slipware, 13, 16, 17, 46; spatial patterning of, 48; stoneware, 10, 13, 15, 16, 17, 45; structural materials, 13; tools, 47, 50, 53; utensils, 111, 123, 129; whaling, 72, 73fig; whiteware, 10, 13, 15, 112 Askamapoo (sachem), 87, 91, 97– 99 Attapeat (sachem), 50 Awashunks (sachem), 94, 97–99 “Black Platform” (Massachusetts), 126–130; possible functions of: 130–132 Bones, 17, 103; bird, 16, 104, 113tab, 115–116; calcined, 53; fish, 13, 16, 46; mammal, 13, 16, 46, 104, 113tab, 115 Bradford, William, 188, 192 Brown, Edward, 8 Buttons, wooden, 10 Cabinetmaking, 8 Calaway, Robert, 8 Calumet ceremonialism, 139, 152 Capaum Pond (Nantucket...