Daily Life: Pilgrims and Native Americans Name:______

Daily Life: Pilgrims and Native Americans Name:______

Housing

Pilgrims

·  Like English cottages, main room for sleeping, eating, and living and storage above

·  Had a fireplace

·  Wooden with straw roof

·  Areas for crops and livestock in the town surrounded by a barrier

Wampanoag Indians

·  Lived in circular wetus

·  Sleep on animal skin mats and have a fire pit

·  Lived in cleared areas for growing corn, squash, beans, and other crops in the summer then wood move to wooded area for more protection in winter

Clothes

Pilgrims

·  Women wore garters and stockings and petticoats, and a waistcoat, then a coif hat, shoes, and an apron. They also had a small pocket bag tied around their waist. (Lots of clothes!)

·  Young boys wore dresses, then they wore breeches, stockings, garters, and a short coat called a doublet.

·  No sewing machines, no belts, hand-made and dyed

Wampanoag Indians

·  Wore loin cloths of deerskin and a bag for supplies

·  Went barefoot or wore moccasins

·  For special occasions they wore leggings, jewelry, body paint, pouches, and tribal headdresses that took months to make

·  Men and women wore jewelry made from various resources

·  Designs were hand-painted with slivers of wood like toothpicks

Food

Pilgrims

·  Hunted and ate waterfowl like duck

·  Seafood like mussels

·  Cornbread, curds, hasty pudding

·  They had three meals a day with the biggest being the midday meal

·  At with hands, wiped hands on clothes on shoulder

Wampanoag Indians

·  Ate rabbit, squirrel, turkey, and deer

·  Gave thanks to spirit of animals and Kiehtan the Creator

·  Women made meat stew from hunt called sobaheg

·  Fish with dried clam out of mishoon canoes.

Chores

Pilgrims

·  Planted rye seeds, cut down, removed grain, ground into flour

·  Tended the fire, cooked meals, fetched wood

·  Fertilize the garden and fetched water

Wampanoag Indians

·  Bury sacks of corn to save through winter, bring food with them to store

·  Fetch water and firewood

School

Pilgrims

·  Parents taught them reading and writing sometimes. No schools

·  Learned Bible verses

Wampanoag Indians

·  Learn how to hunt with a ahtomp bow, knife, and small pouch of corn for the day

·  Learn to make own arrows

·  No schools, but some of the strongest were taught to be warrior counselors

Games

Pilgrims

·  Shooting marbles through a knicker box

·  Blind Man’s Bluff

Wampanoag Indians

·  Pin Game where a ring was attached to a stick and you had to flip the ring over the stick or pin.

·  Blind Man’s Bluff