http://spirit.lib.uconn.edu/ArchNet/Topical/Historic/Plimoth/Hobba.html (PC Press Internet CD, 03/1996)
To assist in interpreting prehistoric archaeological sites in southern New England, archaeologists often conduct ethnohistoric documentary research related to the local tribes, conduct interviews with tribal members, or use experimental reconstructions and/or simulated activity areas.
Hobbamock's Homesite is a reconstructed Wampanoag village located at Plimoth Plantation (Plymouth, Massachusetts). This living exhibit is based on ethnohistoric sources of information, archaeological data, and oral tradition. Habbamock's Homesite is an interpretive village. Guides conduct a wide range of activities which would have been part of daily life for 17th- century Algonquians in New England.
By examining the activities and their residues at Hobbamock's Homesite, archaeologists can gain insight useful in interpreting archaeological assemblages and features. The illustrations presented below provide an outline of some of the activites and structures which would have been part of daily life in an Algonquian village.
A bark and cattail wigwam at
Hobbamock's Homesite. There is also a bark-covered longhouse.
A detail of bullrush wall mats
inside the wigwam.
A smaller "menstruation
hut" made of cattails.
A twined bag.
A collection
of cultivating and hunting tools.
A view of the maize garden at Hobbamock's Homesite.
One of the interpretive
guides at
Hobbamock's Homesite dressed in a mixture of traditional Native American and
European clothing.
Food and storage
containers.
A typical meal being
cooked at Hobbamock's Homesite.
Storage pit
feature.