Note 5 — Chapter I · MYTHS AND FOLK-LORE OF THE TIMISKAMING ALGONQUIN.
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1 This band is known locally as Ki·we·′gomani‵cəna‵bi “Turn back lake Indians.” Their rendezvous was at Fort William. Their range extended around Lake Dumoine and down Dumoine river to the Ottawa river. ↑
2 Cf. A. B. Skinner, Notes on the Eastern Cree and Northern Saulteaux, Anth. Papers of Amer. Mus. of Nat. Hist., N.Y., vol. IX, pt. i, 1911. ↑
3 Ciŋgəbis is the grebe, a well known character in Ojibwa mythology, sharing the trickster exploits of Wiske·djak. He appears again as the quasi-hero of a subsequent story in this cycle. ↑
4 Formal way of ending a narration; the narrator is assumed to have been a spectator. The informant temporarily discontinued his story here. ↑
5 Ejus. ↑
6 Ejus. ↑
7 The Indians often use the red willow bark to mix with tobacco. It is called məskwa′bi·‵mij “red willow tree.” The yellow spots seen on the red of the bark are where Wiske·djak, in walking over them, got them between his legs and left yellow matter in the blood from the scabs. The “rock weed,” wa′kwund (rock tripe) is often eaten in the bush when other foods fail. It is scraped off the rocks with a flat stick into a blanket, then washed and boiled and eaten. The water becomes a little slimy, but it makes a nourishing soup. ↑
8 Pαgwa′k·wut pugəma′gan “arrow-head hammer,” an old style of war club with a stone set in a big wooden head attached to a handle and swung by a thong from the warrior’s elbow to leave his hand free. ↑
9 It is a most remarkable thing that practically the same legend is found among all the northern and eastern Algonkians: Cree, Montagnais, Abenaki, Penobscot, Malecite. ↑