: Passamaquoddy Texts by Prince John Dyneley Compiler - Passamaquoddy Indians Folklore; Passamaquoddy language Texts

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PREFACE 1

SERIES 1 6

SERIES 2 20

SERIES 3 56

SERIES 4: Songs 82

PREFACE.

Footnote 1:

The Passamaquoddy of Maine now live at Sipayik or Pleasant Point, near Eastport, Me., and near Princeton, Me., while the Maliseet have their chief settlement near Fredericton, N. B. At Pleasant Point, which is the modern headquarters, dwelt Sopiel Selmo, the keeper of the Wampum Records, a mnemonic system of wampum shells arranged on strings in such a manner, that certain combinations suggested certain sentences or certain ideas to the narrator, who, of course, knew his record by heart and was merely aided by the association of the shell combinations in his mind with incidents of the tale or record which he was rendering. With Selmo, however, died the secret of this curious system, but some of the wampum strings are still to be seen at Pleasant Point and there are a few in the possession of Mr. Wallace Brown at Calais, Me. The laws and customs thereby recorded are published in the first Series of the following texts in a more exact form than that given in my former publication of this record in "Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society," 1897, pp. 479-495.

Of the texts in the present work only the Wampum Records and part of Series 4, "Songs" have been published before in an imperfect form. Poetical and inexact English renderings of some of the Kuloskap material have appeared in Leland and Prince "Kuloskap the Master," New York, 1902, a popular exposition of eastern Algonquin folk-lore.

There are no nasal vowels, as in Penobscot and Abenaki.

J. DYNELEY PRINCE.

NEW YORK, COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY, 1920.

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