The Nonnewaug or CT Cluster#3 - pages 115 – 116
Curtiss Hoffman's “Stone Prayers; Native American Stone Constructions of the Eastern Seaboard” Arcadia 2018
Tûnuppasuonk kodtonquag(kash) - turtle effigies in
stone (Nipmeuw).
A Box Turtle Effigy:
Turtle Effigy in "stone heap" or Káhtôquwuk (Narragansett), allegorically, a 'stone
prayer.'
In the same group of "Stone Mounds" or anogkuéu kodtonquag(kash) - barely
elevated low mound of concentric circles of smooth/round cobbles or very small
stones, sometimes variable as pebbles without organized rings (Nipmeuw):
Algonquin Language terms from:
Rolf
Cachat
Bulletin
of Society for Connecticut Archaeology (2018)
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