1 Massachuset, Mahican: Mourt, A Relation or Journall of the Beginning and Proceedings of the English Plantation Settled at Plimolh in New England, London, 1622, p. 18; Alanson Skinner, Notes on Mahican Ethnology, Public Museum of Milwaukee, Bulletin 2, pp. 93–95, Pl. 25; and Indians of Manhattan Island and Vicinity, American Museum of Natural History, Guide Leaflet 41, New York, 1932.

2 The only traits covered in the Analysis which have to do with the use of wild plants as food are “maple sugar” (trait 35), and “seasoning with vegetable oil” (trait 37).

3 Edward M. Ruttenber, History of the Indian Tribes of Hudson's River, Albany, 1872: quoted in Bureau of American Ethnology, Bulletin 30, Pt. 1, p. 787.

4 Abnaki, Delaware: Frank G. Speck, A Study of the Delaware Indian Big House Ceremony, Publications of the Pennsylvania Historical Committee, Harrisburg, 1931, pp. 30–33; and Oklahoma Delaware Ceremonies, Feasts and Dances, Memoirs of the American Philosophical Society, Vol. 7, pp. 111–117, Philadelphia, 1937.

5 Delaware, Seneca: John Mccullough, “Narrative,” pp. 110–111, in J. Pritts, Incidents of Border Life, Lancaster, 1839; Bernhard J. Stern, “The letters of Asher Wright to Lewis Henry Morgan,” in American Anthropologist, n.s. 35, 1933, p. 144.

6 Massachuset, Delaware: Mourt, idem; and Frank G. Speck, Oklahoma Delaware Ceremonies, Feasts and Dances, p. 121.

7 Malecite, Micmac, Seneca, Huron, Cherokee: Gayton, A. H., “The Orpheus Myth in North America,” Journal of American Folklore, Vol. 48, 1935, p. 266 CrossRefGoogle Scholar.