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قراءة كتاب Wawenock Myth Texts from Maine Forty-third Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1925-26, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1928, pages 165-198
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Wawenock Myth Texts from Maine Forty-third Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1925-26, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1928, pages 165-198
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
| 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
INTRODUCTION
It is one of the laments of ethnology that the smaller tribes of the northern coast of New England faded from the scene of history before we were able to grasp the content of their languages and culture. At this late day practically all have dwindled below the power of retaining the memory of their own institutions—their link with the past. Nevertheless, some few groups along the coast have maintained existence in one form or another down to the present. In regions somewhat more remote, the tribes of the Wabanaki group, hovering