Identifier: annualreportofbu43smit (find matches)
Title: Annual report of the Bureau of American Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution
Year: 1895 (1890s)
Authors: Smithsonian Institution. Bureau of American Ethnology
Subjects: Smithsonian Institution. Bureau of American Ethnology Ethnology Indians
Publisher: Washington : U. S. Govt. Print. Off.
Contributing Library: Boston Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Kahle/Austin Foundation and Omidyar Network

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ns. WAWENOGK MYTH TEXTS FROM MAINE BY FRANK G. SPECK The texts are published with the permission of the Divisionof Anthropology, Nutional Museum of Canada 165 CONTENTS Pago Introduction 169 Phonetic note 178 Gluskifbe the Transformer 180 Ghislc?be creates himself and competes with the Creator 180 The Turtle insults the chief of the Birds; Gluskabe helps him toescape; mountains are created; and again Turtle escapes bygetting his captors to throw him into the water, but is finally killed ^ 181 Gluskabe becomes angry with the birch tree and marks it for life 185 Glusk^ibe the Transformer (free translation) 186 How a hunter encountered Bmule, visited his country and obtained a boon 190 How a hunter encountered Bmule, visited his country and obtained a boon (free translation) 193 The origin and use of wampum 195 The origin and use of wampum (free translation) 196 Wawenock drinking song 197 Index 821 ILLUSTRATION Plate 13. Fran9ois Neptune, the last speaker of the Wawenock dialect., 169 167
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WAWENOCK MYTH TEXTS FROM MAINE By Frank G. Speck INTRODUCTION It is one of the laments of ethnology that the smaller tribes of thenorthern coast of New England faded from the scene of historybefore we were able to grasp the content of their languages andculture. At this late day practically all have dwindled below thepower of retaining the memory of their own institutions—their linkwith the past. Nevertheless, some few groups along the coast havemaintained existence in one form or another down to the present.In regions somewhat more remote, the tribes of the Wabanald group,hovering within the shelter of the northeastern wilderness, success-fully struggled through the trials of the transition period, preservedtheir oral inheritance, and even, to a considerable degree, thepractices of their early culture. Here on native soU still dwellthe Penobscot and Passamaquoddy. On the western and southernboundaries of Maine the Wabanaki bands escaped extinction onlyby fleeing to Canada, where th

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