Skuguisu káhtqwk (káhtôquwuk)
"The
explanation of Moore and Weiss' Figure 3 (2016:51), which shows a ring of
carefully stacked cobbles outlining part of a boulder and trailing behind it,
forming an emerging serpent form, reports a claim by Ives that it "allows
for a large quantity of stones to be stored within a small
footprint." Objectively assessed,
the form claimed by Ives to be an efficiency device is not at all efficient; it
holds very few stones for its area on actual count. Ives' cited conjecture
fails upon real-life testing and practical farm economics, and fails to explain
the "stone corral" shown, being built partly on and partly off an
immovable boulder, and being empty of actual "stored stones." No
explanation is offered as to why stone "corrals" are usually empty at
sites across the Northeast, or why stones on immovable boulders, which do not
move on their own, need to be "corralled."
Evaluations
of máunumúetash* by parties who do not
test their hypotheses against Northeast Algonquian cosmology and rituals are
doing, at best, only half an investigation..."
Nohham Rolf
Cachat-Shilling
Bulletin
of Society for Connecticut Archaeology (2018)
*Máunumúet(ash) - place(s) of ceremonial
gathering (ehenda mawewink, Lënapeuw,
mawighunk, Mahhekanneuw). Themes
of connectedness, reciprocity, prayerfulness and continuity are expressed
through máunumúetash.
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