Object: Goose

Image Credits

Jan Weenix, Dead Goose and Peacock, 1718, The Wallace Collection, Wikimedia Commons

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Description

Geese were commonly hunted by Indigenous people for food, and often traded with the Dutch settlements.  

 

New England's Rarities Discovered by John Josselyn, 1672 lists Goose fat as a cure for the bloody flux.