Maryland; stories of her people and of her history . uses and fields,their furs and skins to the Englishmen for steel axes andknives, and iron kettles? The houses in which the Indians lived, and w^hichGovernor Calvert had bought with the land, w^ere oblonghuts but little higher than a man. The only opening,besides the door, was a hole in the roof through which thesmoke of the fire passed out. At night the Indians slepton the floor around the fire. The chiefs houses werelarger and more comfortable, and contained beds made ofskins stretched on sticks. At places along Chesapeake Bay are found ^ki
Maryland; stories of her people and of her history . uses and fields,their furs and skins to the Englishmen for steel axes andknives, and iron kettles? The houses in which the Indians lived, and w^hichGovernor Calvert had bought with the land, w^ere oblonghuts but little higher than a man. The only opening,besides the door, was a hole in the roof through which thesmoke of the fire passed out. At night the Indians slepton the floor around the fire. The chiefs houses werelarger and more comfortable, and contained beds made ofskins stretched on sticks. At places along Chesapeake Bay are found ^kitchen-middens, which are a sign that many years ago there wasan Indian village nearby. All the inhabitants of a village,after eating their oysters, would throw the shells into thesame heap. Year after year the heap grew larger, and intime became covered with earth. Seeds fell into the soil 33 MARYLAND until at length the mound was covered with grass andshrubs and trees. These overgrown hillocks of oystershells are what are called ^^ BARTER WITH THE INDIANS FfFrom the mural painting by C. For clothing the Indians wore the skins of deer and otheranimals fastened around their shoulders, and apronsabout their waists. Their ornaments were strings ofbeads and feathers. In later years they used a kind of 34 THE INDIANS money, called peak or wampum, made of clam ormussel shells. Small cylindrical beads were cut from theshells and strung on cords or made into flat belts. This
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