Vessels on a vessel: Senauki, water, and an anti-cattle protest in colonial Georgia

Herrmann, Rachel B. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1676-7164 2026. Vessels on a vessel: Senauki, water, and an anti-cattle protest in colonial Georgia. Calaresu, Melissa and Manzanares Mileo, Marta, eds. Food Production and Gender across the Early Modern World, London: Routledge, pp. 102-120. (10.4324/9781003695820-6)

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Abstract

In most accounts of relations between Native Americans and English colonists in eighteenth-century Georgia, the Yamacraw leader Tomochichi and go-between Mary Musgrove are cast as the leading diplomats in interactions with colonists. This essay instead explores the actions of Tomochichi’s wife, Senauki, who presented English colonists and missionaries with gifts of ‘milk’ and honey during an important shipboard meeting in 1736. By reinterpreting the milk as nut milk and analysing the significance of the honey and the vessels that contained these liquids, this essay deciphers Senauki’s anti-cattle protest while surfacing Indigenous women’s labour to produce and gather the wild foods that sustained Yamacraws, their kin, and colonists.

Item Type:	Book Section
Date Type:	Publication
Status:	Published
Schools:	Schools > History, Archaeology and Religion
Publisher:	Routledge
ISBN:	9789048559411
Last Modified:	07 Jul 2026 08:45
URI:	https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/187984

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