From April 2-8, 2013, I traveled to Honolulu, Hawai’i to present my research on the material culture of Indian mariners at the Society for American Archaeology Conference. While there, I spent two days in the Hawaii State Archives scouring customs records from O’ahu for documentary evidence of Indian mariners from the New England region. Almost immediately I found two Pequot mariners, Amos W. George and Sam Fagins, in the discharge records for “Foreign Seamen.” In addition, I located five Shinnecock mariners, Andrew Cuffee, Sydney Cuffee, Russell Bunn, Israel W. Kellis, and Moses Kellis. Exciting histories are emerging in the Pacific Ocean and Polynesia!
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