Passamaquoddy election song [sound recording] / sung by Noel Joseph
Summary:
Jesse Walter Fewkes collection of Passamaquoddy cylinder recordings SR27Description:
Engineer notes: Cylinder shows some mold damage and there is groove damage at the beginning of the content.; FCP notes: Surface noise. Announcement: ". . . by Newell Josephs, taken by J. Walter Fewkes on the 15th of March,1890, at Calais, Maine." Perhaps the chief-making song (#10 on Fewkes's list, JAF: 258), or another war song.
Related Fewkes' fieldnotes are located at the National Anthropological Archives (ms. 4408:9), p. 9.
Introduction in English, song in Passamaquoddy language.
Location Description:
Calais (Me.)