American Museum of Natural History
Welcome to a wild place: this block in 1609! Through the tabs below, discover the wildlife, Native American use, and landscape factors of this block's original ecology, as reconstructed by the Mannahatta Project. You can also explore the block today and sponsor the Mannahatta Project into the future.
People lived on Mannahatta long before Europeans arrived. Here learn about possible Lenape use of this block four hundred years ago and some of the species they may have hunted, fished and gathered.
Probability bars indicate relative suitability/probability of use; estimates are based on analysis of archaeological information and landscape models for Mannahatta. For more information, read Mannahatta: A Natural History of New York City (2009).
| Lenape Habitat |  |
Probability/ Suitability |
| Human habitat suitability |  |
|
| Distance to nearest Lenape encampment (meters): 1,376 | ||
| Distance to nearest Lenape trail (meters): 944 |
| Hunting |  |
||||
| Selected species | |||||
|
Common Name | |
Scientific Name | |
|
| Snapping Turtle | |||||
| Common Musk Turtle | |||||
| Passenger Pigeon | |||||
| Eastern Mud Turtle | |||||
| White-tailed Deer | |||||
| Gathering |  |
||||
| Selected species | |||||
|
Common Name | |
Scientific Name | |
|
| black raspberry | |||||
| maleberry | |||||
| American wintergreen | |||||
| chairmaker's bulrush | |||||
| American black currant | |||||
The Welikia project for this block is sponsored by a generous contribution from:
Little Leo Triana at $25
and is also supported by contributions from:
Julianne Lutz Warren at $45
Jeanne Gang at $100
Julianne Lutz Warren at $45
Jeanne Gang at $100