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Audio Recording Passamaquoddy story of the Fisher and the Sable, part 2 Title in Passamaquoddy: Pokomkesq naka Apistanewc / Jesse Walter Fewkes collection of Passamaquoddy cylinder recordings SR14 / Pokomkesq naka Apistanewc

Passamaquoddy story of the Fisher and the Sable, part 2 / spoken by Peter Selmore (Digital restoration from digital preservation master file)

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Passamaquoddy story of the Fisher and the Sable, part 2 / spoken by Peter Selmore (Digital preservation master file from original cylinder)

Passamaquoddy story of the Fisher and the Sable, part 2 / spoken by Peter Selmore (Track from digital preservation copy of AFC preservation tape LWO 6528 R1B)

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Title

  • Passamaquoddy story of the Fisher and the Sable, part 2

Other Title

  • Title in Passamaquoddy: Pokomkesq naka Apistanewc
  • Jesse Walter Fewkes collection of Passamaquoddy cylinder recordings SR14
  • Pokomkesq naka Apistanewc

Summary

  • Passamaquoddy transcription: Iyan hesisol kotuntun opos. Nita kotuntun temonu ktoliptuwan api kotuntuwan nit on macahan kotuntun yut nit macahqahk oposis ktiyan nita yut lipuwan anataqot ktiyan ntapaqsomon oc kisi kulaqsomon malomte kisi suwikopipetek tokoman te yutte nitte na macewsan yut kahk nusami mocahqot saqsamon yut kisi wolaqsomon ah kisi putuwipetek ktoli putuwipetek...noniyakon naka ktoliptuwan yet ktolcy eyilit nitte na...wot olu ...puwaksonol...temonu kakaluwan...musuwok kuhusuwok ahahsuwok sipsok. Yet psite wen ...macahac mus apc peciyac mamote wot cihqonaqc saqkhapekit... Uci mawocokhomut...mace macehkawotiniya malomte peciye wikuwak ali kotunk on wot pukcinsqchs topinuwan tan ktoli kisi nehpahan yuhtol pukcinsqehsiyil.
  • English translation: He told his brother to gather small sticks, I am on my way to gather to bring him. So he left to look for awkward/funny shapes to take him after he carves it. So he hits him with the wood and says its too much of an awkward/ funny shape. Once you carve it and shape it and use it as a whistle and take it towhere he is at and starts to holler moose, coyotes, cows, horses, and birds. Everyone go there and not return. Finally a turtle crawling out of the dirt that covered him and they finally arrived home and someone says are you hunting and the evil woman was thinking of a way to kill him.

Names

  • Fewkes, Jesse Walter, 1850-1930, recordist, speaker
  • Selmore, Peter, performer

Created / Published

  • 1890-03-17.

Headings

  • -  Passamaquoddy Indians--Maine--Calais
  • -  Indians of North America--Northeastern States
  • -  Passamaquoddy Indians--Folklore
  • -  Tales
  • -  Sable--Folklore
  • -  Fisher (Mammal)--Folklore
  • -  Snakes--Folklore
  • -  Gluskap (Legendary character)
  • -  Calais (Me.)

Genre

  • Tales
  • Songs
  • Folk tales
  • Trickster tales
  • Animal tales
  • Field recordings
  • Cylinder recordings

Notes

  • -  Recorded in Calais, Maine on March 17, 1890 by Jesse Walter Fewkes.
  • -  Title from Federal Cylinder Project catalog. Title in Passamaquoddy, Passamaquody transcription, pronunciation of title, and translation of content were supplied by Passamaquoddy tribal elders and leaders in 2019.
  • -  Digital recordings of the original cylinder content and new recording of the story spoken by Dwayne Tomah are available at PassamaquoddyPeople.com https://passamaquoddypeople.com/digital-heritage/pokomkesq-naka-apistanewc External
  • -  Digital preservation copy, MAVIS no. 2031743-2-1, from original cylinder on Archeophone #27. Library of Congress, 2015 December 11. 85.5 Mbytes BWF.
  • -  Digital restoration copy, MAVIS no. 2031743-4-1, from preservation master file (from original cylinder) using Izotope RX4, Cedar Cambridge v.10 and Izotope Ozone 7. Library of Congress, 2016 October 31. 84.28 Mbytes BWF.
  • -  Digital preservation copy, MAVIS no. 2005666-3-2 (at 29:38), from preservation tape reel. Library of Congress, 2014 January 14. 1.48 GB BWF.
  • -  Preservation tape reel LWO 6528 R1B (at 29:38) from original cylinder. Washington, D.C. Library of Congress, 197u. 1 sound tape reel ; analog, 7 1/2 ips, mono. ; 10.5 in.
  • -  "Pokomkesq naka Apistanewc" pronounced: Bug-gum-guess naga A bis dun ouch.
  • -  Engineer notes: Some scuffing is audible and a few nicks cause transients.
  • -  Jesse Walter Fewkes collection of Passamaquoddy cylinder recordings (AFC 1972/003: SR14) American Folklife Center, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
  • -  FCP notes: False start by engineer. Announcement: "This is part of the story of the Sable and the Fisher, #2."
  • -  Title information and FCP notes from Federal Cylinder Project (Washington, D.C.: American Folklife Center, Library of Congress, 1984), volume 2, p. 227.
  • -  Description in Fewkes, J. W. "A contribution to Passamaquoddy Folk-lore" Journal of American Folk-lore 3, no. 11 (1890) p. 266-70 https://www.jstor.org/stable/534065?seq=1#page_scan_tab_contents External
  • -  Related Fewkes' fieldnotes are located at the National Anthropological Archives (ms. 4408:9) p. 39-52.
  • -  In Passamaquoddy and English.

Medium

  • 1 sound cylinder (2:34 min.) ; 4 in.

Source Collection

  • Jesse Walter Fewkes collection of Passamaquoddy cylinder recordings

Repository

Digital Id

Library of Congress Control Number

  • 2015655563

Rights Advisory

  • Traditional Knowledge Label: Attribution - Elihtasik (How it is done). When using anything that has this Label, please use the correct attribution. This may include individual Passamaquoddy names, it may include Passamaquoddy as the correct cultural affiliation or it may include Passamaquoddy Tribe as the tribal designation. https://www.passamaquoddypeople.com/passamaquoddy-traditional-knowledge-labels External
  • Traditional Knowledge Label: Outreach - Ekehkimkewey (Educational). Certain material has been identified by Passamaquoddy tribal members and can be used and shared for educational purposes. Ekehkimkewey means 'educational'. The Passamaquoddy Tribe is a present day community who retains cultural authority over its heritage. This Label is being used to teach and share cultural knowledge and histories in schools, and to raise greater awareness and respect for Passamaquoddy culture and worldviews. https://www.passamaquoddypeople.com/passamaquoddy-traditional-knowledge-labels External
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  • Outreach - Ekehkimkewey (Educational).
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Rights & Access

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The Library of Congress is providing access to these materials for noncommercial purposes such as education and research. The Passamaquoddy Tribe and the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology, Harvard University, donor of the recordings, have consented to this online presentation. Responsibility for making an independent legal assessment of an item and securing any necessary permissions ultimately rests with persons desiring to use the item. See our Legal Notices and Privacy and Publicity Rights for additional information and restrictions.

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Traditional Knowledge Labels

The American Folklife Center (AFC) at the Library of Congress has undertaken a collaborative preservation digitization and access project focusing on its historical Native American audio recording collections. The project involves: a) digitally reformatting older media formats, including wax cylinder recordings, in order to recover and preserve the recorded voices and languages of Native American people, and b) developing curatorial protocols that are attentive to community cultural sensitivities regarding unique cultural materials along with digital access tools (online interfaces, catalog records) that embed Native American cultural knowledge about and descriptions of the content of the recordings in Library collection records, to the extent possible.

For this project, the AFC has partnered with members of the Passamaquoddy community and two non-profit organizations, Local Contexts and Mukurtu, to apply Traditional Knowledge Labels (TK Labels) to Passamaquoddy recordings made in 1890 and 1891 by anthropologist Jesse Walter Fewkes.

Local Contexts and its partners are working towards a new paradigm of rights and responsibilities that recognizes the inherent sovereignty that Indigenous communities have over their cultural heritage. Traditional Knowledge (TK) Labels are an educational and informational digital marker created by the Local Contexts initiative to address the specific intellectual property needs of Native, First Nations, Aboriginal and Indigenous peoples with regard to the extensive collections of cultural heritage materials currently held within museums, archives, libraries, and private collections. Indigenous communities use TK Labels to identify and clarify community-specific access protocols associated with the materials and convey important information such as guidelines for proper use and responsible stewardship of cultural heritage materials. TK Labels provide information to help users of traditional cultural knowledge from outside the creators' community understand the importance and significance of this material, even when it is in the public domain.  More information is available at Local ContextsExternal.

The Passamaquoddy Tribe is a present-day community that retains cultural authority over its heritage. The TK Labels selected and defined for this collection by Passamaquoddy community leaders provide community knowledge and context that define the significance and responsible representation of their cultural heritage. The Passamaquoddy Tribe requests that you follow its recommendations for use as indicated on the TK Label text on each recording. For more information and related collections see the Passamaquoddy People website supported by staff at Local Contexts, Mukurtu.org and Washington State University’s Center for Digital Scholarship and Curation http://passamaquoddypeople.com/External .

Traditional Knowledge Label: Attribution - Elihtasik (How it is done).
When using anything that has this Label, please use the correct attribution. This may include individual Passamaquoddy names, it may include Passamaquoddy as the correct cultural affiliation or it may include Passamaquoddy Tribe as the tribal designation. http://passamaquoddypeople.com/digital-heritage/elihtasik-trans-how-it-doneExternal
Traditional Knowledge Label: Outreach - Ekehkimkewey (Educational).
Certain material has been identified by Passamaquoddy tribal members and can be used and shared for educational purposes. Ekehkimkewey means 'educational'. The Passamaquoddy Tribe is a present day community that retains cultural authority over its heritage. This Label is being used to teach and share cultural knowledge and histories, and to raise greater awareness and respect for Passamaquoddy culture and worldviews. http://passamaquoddypeople.com/digital-heritage/ekehkimkewey-trans-educationalExternal

Traditional Knowledge Label: Non-Commercial - Ma yut monuwasiw (This is not sold).
This material should not be used for commercial purposes, including ways that derive profit from sale or production for non-Passamaquoddy people. In Passamaquoddy, Ma yut monuwasiw means 'this is not to be purchased'. http://passamaquoddypeople.com/digital-heritage/ma-yut-monuwasiw-trans-not-soldExternal

Credit line

Jesse Walter Fewkes collection of Passamaquoddy cylinder recordings (AFC 1972/003), American Folklife Center, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.

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Chicago citation style:

Fewkes, Jesse Walter, Recordist, Speaker. Passamaquoddy story of the Fisher and the Sable, part 2. performeds by Selmore, Peter -03-17, 1890. Audio. https://aj.sunback.homes/item/2015655563/.

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Fewkes, J. W. (1890) Passamaquoddy story of the Fisher and the Sable, part 2. Selmore, P., performer -03-17. [Audio] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://aj.sunback.homes/item/2015655563/.

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Fewkes, Jesse Walter, Recordist, Speaker. Passamaquoddy story of the Fisher and the Sable, part 2. performer by Selmore, Peter -03-17, 1890. Audio. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <aj.sunback.homes/item/2015655563/>.