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WAWENOCK MYTH TEXTS FROM MAINE
BY
FRANK G. SPECK

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

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[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]
[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