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Collected by antique dealer Charlotte Cook. Squibnocket Triangle, preform Nearly complete preform for a Squibnocket Triangle point, abandoned during production, before it could be thinned and the edges finished due to a line of stacked hinge fractures on one face, creating a ridge that would have been impossible to remove on a piece this small, and probably also due to breakage of one ear while trying to thin the point. Tip and one or both ears also damaged later, probably by plowing. Late Archaic The area now known as Little Compton, RI is the traditional homelands of the Sakonnet Wampanoag people. Historic Sakonnet belongings in our collection and in private collections indicate that the Sakonnet people, and their antecedents who may have called themselves by another name, have lived and cared for these lands for at least 13,000 years. The Sakonnets appear most frequently in written records during the second half of the 17th century while led by their Sachem Awashonks, one of several female leaders in the Dawnland or Southeastern New England at that time and during the devastation of King Philip's War. They appear first in the written record in 1622. Presently, the Sakonnet people are no longer an active Native community and have not been since the late 1820s. Many Sakonnet people left their homelands in the 17th, 18th and 19th century, sometimes under great pressure from European settlers, to live within other Native and non-native communities near and far, including the Pocasset reservation at Wattuppa in Fall River, MA; Bristol, RI; Middleborough, Westport, Dartmouth, and New Bedford, MA; and likely within the Aquinnah and Mashpee Wampanoag communities. Many Sakonnet men also sought employment at sea. People who believe they have Sakonnet ancestors still live locally. |
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2022.11.8 |
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Stone, Quartz |