WAWENOCK MYTH TEXTS FROM MAINE BY FRANK G. SPECK
Reading edition
Forty-third Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1925-1926, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1928, pages 165-198
The texts are published with the permission of the Division of Anthropology, National Museum of Canada
CONTENTS
Page
Introduction 169
Phonetic note 178
Gluskα̨be´ the Transformer 180
Gluskα̨be´ creates himself and competes with the Creator 180
The Turtle insults the chief of the Birds; Gluskα̨be´ helps him to escape; mountains are created; and again Turtle escapes by getting his captors to throw him into the water, but is finally killed 181
Gluskα̨be´ becomes angry with the birch tree and marks it for life 185
Gluskα̨be´ 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. François Neptune, the last speaker of the Wawenock dialect 169
BUREAU OF AMERICAN ETHNOLOGY
FORTY-THIRD ANNUAL REPORT
PLATE 13
FRANÇOIS NEPTUNE, THE LAST SPEAKER OF WAWENOCK (1912)
WAWENOCK MYTH TEXTS FROM MAINE By Frank G. Speck