Lenape Shelter
This covered the doorway of a wigwam or longhouse.
What is animal skin?
The mainstay of the Lenape. A hunter would used a bow and arrow to catch this animal.
What is the deer?
This is a planting combination of corn, beans, and squash.
What are the three sisters?
The Lenape believed this spirit would help them with hunting.
Who is the messingw?
This is what Mannahatta means.
What is the land of many hills?
The name of the house where several families lived.
What is a longhouse?
These are three types of tools used to fish.
What are spears, harpoons, and fishing weirs?
What is a mortar and pestle?
This spirit lived in the 12th and highest heaven.
The explorer that discovered Manahatta in 1609.
Who is Henry Hudson?
These are dome-shaped houses that the Lenape lived in.
What are wigwams?
This is the name of the boat used to fish.
What is a dugout canoe?
This is what a boy or man would wear.
What is a breechcloth?
This was a place where the Lenape went to sweat out their illnesses.
What is a sweat lodge?
These are some natural resources found on Mannahatta.
What are fruits, nuts, trees, elk, deer, moose, bear, beaver, fish?
At least three main materials that the Lenape used to build their homes.
What are saplings, bark, firewood, bast strips?
A trap used to catch large animals. It consisted of many heavy logs that would fall on the animal.
What is a deadfall trap?
This was cleaned, dried, and waterproofed by women for clothing.
What is deer hide?
A boy would have to do this to find his spirit animal.
What is a vision quest?
The Lenape eventually lost their land on Mannahatta because of a misunderstanding.
What happened when Peter Minuit offered $24 dollars to the Lenape?
This caused the Lenape to abandon their homes after 5-10 years.
The houses would rot.
This trap used a type of string that would tighten around an animal's leg to catch it.
What is a noose snare?
The Lenape would do this to save meat throughout the winter.
This was the evil spirit.
Who is Mahtantu?
This led to the near extinction of the beaver.
What is the fur trade?