The Japanese examined his ship and took particular note of Pyrrhus Concer, a crewman from Southampton who was the only African American on board, and a Shinnecock Native American named Eleazar – the first dark skinned men the Japanese had seen and they wanted to touch their skin.
Native Americans living on Long Island eventually became identified by European settlers by the place name in which they lived, such as the Montauk and the Shinnecock, artificially identifying the peoples separately and erroneously into "tribes", although they all shared the same culture and language.
Other Y-dialects include the Shinnecock and Pequot languages spoken historically by tribes on Long Island and in Connecticut, respectively.
Shinnecock Inlet, an inlet connecting Shinnecock Bay and the Atlantic Ocean
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Shinnecock Canal, a canal that cuts across the South Fork of Long Island at Hampton Bays, New York
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Shinnecock Indian Nation, an American Indian tribe in Southampton, New York
Shinnecock oral history ascribed the wampum market demise to a deadly red tide that decimated the whelk and quahog populations, though this cannot be true because a reduction in whelk and quahog populations would increase the scarcity and value of wampum.
Shinnecock | Shinnecock Indian Nation | Shinnecock Inlet | Shinnecock Canal |
American impressionist artists also thrived in California at Carmel and Laguna Beach; in New York on eastern Long Island at Shinnecock, largely due to the influence of William Merritt Chase; and in Boston where Edmund Charles Tarbell and Frank Weston Benson became important practitioners of the impressionist style.