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HISTORY OF COH ASSET. 



considerable household stuff except these : only of latter years, 

 smce the English came among them, some of them get tin cups 

 and little pails, chests of wood, glass bottles, and such things they 

 affect. 



The Indians' clothing in former times was of the same matter 

 as Adam's was, viz. skins of beasts, as deer, moose, beaver, otters, 

 rackoons, foxes, and other wild creatures. Also, some had man- 

 tles of the feathers of 

 birds, quilled arti- 

 ficially ; and sundry 

 of them continue to 

 this day their old kind 

 of clothing. 



Their weapons 

 heretofore were bows 

 and arrows, clubs and 

 tomahawks, made of 

 wood like a pole axe, 

 with a sharpened 

 stone fastened there- 

 in ; and for defence, 

 they had targets made 

 of barks of trees. 

 But of latter years, 

 since the English, 

 Dutch, and French 

 have trafficked with 

 them, they generally 

 disuse their former 

 weapons, and instead 

 thereof have guns, 

 pistols, swords, rapier blades, fastened unto a staff of the length 

 of a half pike, hatchets, and axes. 



For their water passage, travels, and fishing, they make boats, 

 or canoes, either of great trees, pine or chestnut, made hollow 

 and artificially ; which they do by burning them ; and after with 

 tools, scraping, smoothing, shaping them. Of these they make 

 greater or lesser. Some I have seen will carry twenty persons, 

 being forty or fifty feet in length, and as broad as the tree will 



Stone Hide Scuapkk, ok a Squaw's Knife. 

 King Street. 



