Plate XXII: Industry of the Floridians in Depositing Their Crops in the Public Granary, by Theodor de Bry (ca. 1591) There are two aspects of the image worth noting. First, the portrayal of the dugout canoe corresponds to the findings of archaeologists throughout the state of Florida. Canoes found in Florida, constructed in the manner depicted here, date from 5,000 years ago to the early 20th century, the most recent versions built by Seminole and Miccosukee Indians. The second important aspect of this image is the reference to the public granary in the accompanying caption. Evidence from throughout the southeast indicates that certain tribes used public granaries to store and dispense commonly harvested agricultural goods. In the largest chiefdoms, the chief alone distributed the contents of the granary to his people. Well into the historic period, leaders in the Muskogee world, including the Creeks and Seminoles, maintained public granaries and other methods of communal distribution. They were cropping for hundreds of millions of Aboriginals if not billions from thousands of different tribes. This can still be done #Nativedescendants
Posted on: Fri, 12 Dec 2014 02:35:20 +0000
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