Wooden Bowls of the Algonquian Indians

The proficiency attained in the manufacture of certain household utensils by the Algonquian people is shown by the few bowls and ladles that are occasionally found in old collections or which have been preserved in Indian families. That they were comparatively common in early colonial times is evident from the following quotations. During the epidemic of smallpox in 163 5 among the Indians living near the site of Hartford, Connecticut, being too ill to gather firewood they kept themselves from freezing by burning ye woden trayes & dishes they ate their meals in.' Morton, writing of the New England Indians, says: They have dainty wooden bowls amongst them; and these are disposed by bartering one with the other and are but in certain parts of the Country made, where the several trades are appropriated to the inhabitants of those parts only.2 Gookin3 writes of dishes, spoons, and ladles made very smooth and artificial, and of a sort of wood not subject to split. These they make of several sizes. Josselyn 4 refers to dishes, spoons, and trayes wrought very smooth and neatly out of the knots of wood. Loskiel 5 referring to the Delawares and Iroquois, says: They make their own spoons, and large round dishes of hard wood with great neatness. These they sometimes sold to the whites for food and clothes

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• A Partial Charred Wooden Bowl From Aztalan (47JE1), Wisconsin

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• Charles Clark Willoughby, 1857-1943

  Open Access•Earnest A Hooton•American Antiquity•1943

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