Some Turtle Effigies in CT Cluster #3

The Nonnewaug Cluster 

Also known as CT Cluster#3 

 (pages 115 – 116) in Dr. 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:

1996:

“Invested with prayers for the balance of the universe.”

Beaver's footprints?

https://www.flickr.com/photos/34580529@N04/albums/72157665468482158/with/17161144456/

Turtle Effigy in "stone heap" or Káhtôquwuk  (Narragansett), allegorically, a 'stone prayer.'

Stone: qussuk  (Proto Eastern Algonquian)(singular): a rock/stone

     qusanash  (PEA)(plural): rocks/stones   (PEA) (diminutive plural): small rocks/stones
    

Tûnuppasuonk qussukquanesash – “Small Stones Turtle”

(Al Conley, Personal Communication)  

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):"

More photos: https://www.flickr.com/photos/34580529@N04/albums/72157651696502349

Algonquin Language terms from:

 Rolf Cachat

Bulletin of Society for Connecticut Archaeology (2018)

https://www.academia.edu/40876479/SCASubmission

https://www.academia.edu/40876479/Assessing_Stone_Relics_in_Western_Massachusetts_Part_II_Patterns_of_Site_Distribution