Namopawak (numbers) and Pemoluhkemkil (weekdays)

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Summary: 
Numbers and days of the week spoken by Noel Joseph in 1890 and in 2018 by Dwayne Tomah. SR 08
Traditional Knowledge: 

The numbers and the days of the week were recorded by Jesse Walter Fewkes in his visit to the Passamaquoddy community in March 1890. These were based off the schedule for vocabulary established by the Smithsonian Institution. These were translated by David Francis in 1983 when the first copy of the recordings was returned to Passamaquoddy. In 2018, new work was done to listen to these again, to check the translations and to create a new recording of them. This is spoken by Dwayne Tomah.

Namopawok (Passamaquoddy Numbers)

One - Neqt
Two - Nis
Three - Nihi
Four - New
Five - Nan
Six - Kamahcin
Seven - Oluwikonok
Eight - Oqomolcin
Nine - Esqonatek
Ten - Qotinsk

 

Pemoluhkemkil (Passamaquoddy Days of the Week)

Sunday - Sonte
Monday - Kissonte
Tuesday - Nisewey Pemoluhkemkil
Wednesday - Nihi Pemoluhkemkil
Thursday - New Pemoluhkemkil
Friday - Skehewahtoq
Saturday - Kotuwahsonte

People: 
Noel Joseph
Location Description: 

Indian Township, Maine

Community: 
Passamaquoddy
Category: 
Vocabulary
Collections: 
1890 Passamaquoddy Phonograph Recordings
Original Date: 
1890 March 15th
Creator: 
Noel Joseph, David Francis, Molly Apt, Madonna Soctomah, Molly Neptune, Dwayne Tomah
Language: 
Passamaquoddy
Rights: 
These recordings originate from Peskotomuhkati people, were recorded on our traditional homelands and as such the Passamaquoddy Tribe maintain all legal rights to these recordings in perpetuity. We never ceded our inherent sovereign right to our songs, narratives and language to any non-Passamaquoddy individual, institution or government authority.
Traditional Knowledge Labels: 
Identifier: 
4239: AFC 1972/003: SR08
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Summary: 
Jesse Walter Fewkes collection of Passamaquoddy cylinder recordings SR08
Description: 

Engineer notes: At the two minute mark there is a physical hole in the cylinder that causes the very loud pops. The hole looks intentional, being very symmetrical as if it was done on a drill press. The hole only goes halfway through the cylinder.;FCP notes: Announcement at the beginning: "Two drills and counting-out rhymes by Newell Josephs [sic], taken by J. Walter Fewkes on the 15th day of March, 1890." Announcement at 1:49: "Days of the week, and funeral song."

Related Fewkes' fieldnotes are located at the National Anthropological Archives (ms. 4408:9) p. 39, 47-52.; Translations in related collection: David Francis translations of the Jesse Walter Fewkes Passamaquoddy cylinder recordings (AFC 1983/025).

Introductions in English, remainder in Passamaquoddy language.

People: 
Noel Joseph
Location Description: 

Calais (Me.)

Title: 
Passamaquoddy numerals from 1 to 20; a counting-out rhyme; the days of the week; funeral song [sound recording] / spoken by Noel Joseph
Protocol: 
American Folklife Center Library of Congress Public Access
Community: 
American Folklife Center Library of Congress
Category: 
Vocabulary, Songs
Keywords: 
Counting-out rhymes, Songs, Field recordings, Cylinder recordings
Original Date Description: 
Recorded in Calais, Maine on March 15, 1890 by Jesse Walter Fewkes
Original Date: 
1890 March 15th
Creator: 
Fewkes, Jesse Walter, 1850-1930, recordist, speaker, Joseph, Noel, speaker
Language: 
Passamaquoddy, English
Rights: 
Rights are held by the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology, Harvard University.
Traditional Knowledge Labels: 
Source: 
Jesse Walter Fewkes collection of Passamaquoddy cylinder recordings (AFC 1972/003: SR08) American Folklife Center, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. https://lccn.loc.gov/2015655557
Identifier: 
Cylinder 4239; AFS 14737: A17; RKF 0006; AFC 1972/003: SR08
Subject: 
Passamaquoddy Indians--Maine--Calais, Indians of North America--Northeastern States, Passamaquoddy Indians--Music, Songs, Passamaquoddy, Counting, Days, Passamaquoddy language--Numerals, Passamaquoddy language--Vocabulary, Indian numeration, Funeral music
Type: 
Sound Recording
Format: 
1 sound cylinder (2:38 min.), 3.75 in