The document summarizes aspects of Powhatan village life as encountered by early European settlers. It describes the yehakins (buildings) that housed families, with the ruler having a larger home. The daily lives of Powhatan people involved hunting, gathering, cooking, and community meetings. A variety of tools are shown, such as bow and arrows, knives, and axes, which were used for similar purposes as modern tools. Powhatan culture was passed down orally and through visual artworks like totem poles, with natural resources used to create paints and dyes. The hairstyles of Powhatan men distinguished hunters, with one side grown long and tied up while the other was shaved short

1. By: Ryder Ward

2.  The picture on the left is a
illustration of what the settlers
first saw when they ventured
into the unknown Powhatan
village. They discovered the
yehakins, which were the
buildings within the village.
Theses buildings housed from 6
to 20 people and varied in size.
As usual in hierarchical
societies, the ruler had a larger
more intricate home, and
Powhatan's yehakin was
exceptionally larger than the
others. Additionally, these
buildings or homes were built by
the women of the society.

3.  The daily scene of the Powhatan
consisted of men, women, and
children hunting, gathering, and
cooking. As you can see in the
picture, the Indians are having a
community meeting to great
John smith and trading with him
and one another. Additionally,
there are fish being cooked to
the right and it seems that they
are sort of preparing a meeting
and gifts for him. After the
arrival of the Europeans, the
Powhatan didn’t do many of
these meetings, except to discuss
and establish a plan to better
help themselves in their war-filled
surroundings.

4.  In this image, you see many tools
that the Powhatan used, such as
the bow and arrow, various rock
and bone knives and axes, and a
hammer made from wood and
rock in the lower left of the
picture. These tools would be
used for the same reasons that
we use our modern counterparts
to these tools today. We use the
bow and arrow for hunting, the
rock hammer for building or
crushing something, and the
sharpened rocks to cut and slice
things just as we use knives
today.

5.  In this images, we can see that
the Powhatan were very intuitive
and focused on detail. They had
to be because the only way they
passed their ancestry down was
through oral tradition and
through visual arts. So the totem
poles and the drawn artwork.
Like all tribes they used berries
and other various natural
resources to make dies and
paints. Also, the totem poles
were made from trees and were
carved with the tools from the
slide before this one.

6.  In the image to the left, there is a
depiction of a Powhatan man
ready to hunt. The Powhatan
men’s hairstyles were defined by
their hunting. They would grow
the left side of their hair long
and tie it in a knot, while shaving
the right to prevent their hair
from being caught in their bow.
Additionally, as you can see in
the picture, they decorated
themselves with feathers and
body paint, in which the feathers
were trophies for their intensive
labor of hunting.

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