Additional Resources - Powhatan's Mantle

Werowocomoco Site/National Park Service:
https://www.nps.gov/cajo/planyourvisit/werowocomoco.htm

The sea snail shell used for the mantle can be found today in tributaries like the York and along the shores around the Chesapeake Bay.
https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/254853-Prunum-apicinum

Captain John Smith’s 1612 map of Virginia:
https://www.nps.gov/articles/000/smith-map-of-virginia.htm
The house is depicted in ceremony with Wahunsenacawh in the upper left corner. Smith also describes the house and location, which helped archaeologists determine this may be where it once stood.

Ashmolean Museum and Powhatan’s Mantle:
https://www.ashmolean.org/powhatans-mantle
Museum Podcast:
https://fingerprints.buzzsprout.com/1906450/episodes/9912617-a-place-for-questioning

Captain Christopher Newport:
https://encyclopediavirginia.org/entries/newport-christopher-1561-after-august-15-1617/

Katrina Marchant on John Tradescant the Elder:

Further reading:  The John Tradescants : gardeners to the rose and lily queen by Prudence Leith-Ross
https://archive.org/details/johntradescants0000unse/page/120/mode/2up

Tradescant’s rarities by Arthur MacGregor
http://etheses.dur.ac.uk/10281/1/10281_7075.PDF

Powhatan Landscape: An Archeological History of Algonquian Landscape by Martin Gallivan
https://ufdc.ufl.edu/AA00106434/00001/pdf

Research located some of the shells missing from the mantle at the Peabody Museum at Harvard University. These along with other artifacts are going through the federal NAGRPRA return process by the Pamunkey Tribe. https://collections.peabody.harvard.edu/objects/details/53621