Kolusuwakon (Passamaquoddy Words - Spirits and other Beings)

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Summary: 
Passamaquoddy Words of Spirits and other Beings
Traditional Knowledge: 

Mahtoqehs: snowshoe hare (Lepus americanus); (also, in general) rabbit

Mihkomuwehs: mihkomuwehsuhke … s/he uses spiritual powers for evil purposes

Cipelam: spirit of the night

Neqtaq neqtaqtek: … single-barreled shotgun

Pukcinsqehs: Stump woman - name of malicious woman in oral tradition

Sqewtomuhs: female apparition seen or heard crying eerily; swamp woman

Wonakomehs: little person who lives in among rocks

Lompekuwinuhsis: Water spirit

Putuwosuwin: Council member

Aputumkon: Sea serpent

Community: 
Passamaquoddy
Category: 
Cultural Life, Vocabulary, Stories
Collections: 
1890 Passamaquoddy Phonograph Recordings
Original Date: 
1890 March 15th
Creator: 
Noel Joseph, 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: 
4259:AFC 1972/003: SR28
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Summary: 
Jesse Walter Fewkes collection of Passamaquoddy cylinder recordings SR28
Description: 

Engineer notes: Cylinder shows some mold damage and there is groove damage at the beginning of the content.; FCP notes: "Pronunciation of Divinities in Passamaquoddy Mythology." Inaudible announcement.

Related Fewkes' fieldnotes are located at the National Anthropological Archives (ms. 4408:9) p. 32-33.; Translations in related collection: David Francis translations of the Jesse Walter Fewkes Passamaquoddy cylinder recordings (AFC 1983/025).

In Passamaquoddy.

Location Description: 

Calais (Me.)

Title: 
Passamaquoddy pronunciation of names of divinities [sound recording] / spoken by Noel Joseph
Protocol: 
American Folklife Center Library of Congress Public Access
Community: 
American Folklife Center Library of Congress
Category: 
Vocabulary
Keywords: 
Field recordings, Cylinder recordings
Original Date Description: 
Recorded in Calais, Maine in March, 1890 by Jesse Walter Fewkes
Original Date: 
1890 March
Creator: 
Fewkes, Jesse Walter, 1850-1930, recordist, speaker, Joseph, Noel, performer
Language: 
Passamaquoddy
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: SR28) American Folklife Center, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. https://lccn.loc.gov/2015655577
Identifier: 
Cylinder 4259; AFS 14738: A18; RKF 1742; AFC 1972/003: SR28
Subject: 
Passamaquoddy Indians--Maine--Calais, Indians of North America--Northeastern States, Passamaquoddy language--Names, Passamaquoddy language--Vocabulary, Names, Personal--Folklore, Algonquian gods, Language and languages--Religious aspects
Type: 
Sound Recording
Format: 
1 sound cylinder (1:40 min.), 3.75 in