Audio Recording

Passamaquoddy numerals from 1 to 20 ; a counting-out rhyme ; the days of the week ; funeral song

Namopawak (numbers); pemoluhkemkil (weekdays) | Jesse Walter Fewkes collection of Passamaquoddy cylinder recordings SR08

Passamaquoddy cultural narrative: 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 on the schedule for vocabulary established by the Smithsonian Institution (p. 82). These were translated by David Francis in 1983 when the first copy of the recordings was returned to Passamaquoddy. In 2018, new...