BUSHNELL] NATIVE VILLAGES AND VILLAGE SITES PAL 
then about Harvest, they goe ten or twentie together, and sometimes 
more, and withall Gf it be not too farre) wives and children also, 
where they build up little hunting houses of Barks and Rushes (not 
comparable to their dwelling houses) and so each man takes his 
bounds of two, three, or foure miles, where he sets thirty, forty or 
fifty Traps.” 
And Williams mentions two other structures of a more temporary 
nature than the dwellings (p. 146): 
“Puttuckquapuonck. This Arbour or Play house is made of 
long poles set in the Earth, four square, sixteen or twenty foot high, 
on which they hang great store of their stringed money, have great 
staking towne against towne, and two chosen out of the rest by 
course to play the Game at this kind of Dice in the midst of all their 
abettors.”’ 
After referring to several ceremonies he continued: 
‘‘But their chiefest Idoll of all for sport and game, is (if theirland be 
at peace) toward Harvest, when they set up a long house called 
Qunnekamuck, which signifies Long house, sometimes an hundred 
sometimes two hundred foot iene upon a plaine neere the Court 
(which they call Kitteickauick) where many thousands, men and 
Women meet, where he that goes in danceth in the sight of all the 
rest. ae Gains (1)). 
The letter structure, a long and evidently open ste closely re- 
sembled the Mide ieaee of the Ojibway, which was dolely: a place for 
holding the rites connected with the Mide, and consequently should 
not be confused with the long communal dwelling houses of the 
Iroquois. As both the Ojibway and Narraganset were Algonquian 
tribes it is possible their long ceremonial structures had a common 
and quite ancient origin. 
The movement about from place to place by a comparatively 
small number of persons, as mentioned by Williams, easily accounts 
for the many small camp or village sites discovered in all parts of the 
land, and their return from time to time to the same site or its vicinity 
would, in after years, cause it to appear as having once been oecupied 
by a large group of wigwams—an extensive village. Thus an area 
which from surface indications appears to have been rather thickly 
peopled, may, in reality, have been the home of a small number of 
families who were ever moving from one place to another, as the 
requirements of the seasons made necessary. 
Evidently all the native dwellings of southern New panne were 
quite similar, although they may have differed in covering. Early 
in September, 1606, the French reached Port Fortune, the present 
Chatham harbor, the eastern point of Barnstable County, Massa- 
chusetts. Here they found “‘some five to six hundred savages,”’ and 
