[Annals N. Y, Acad, Sci., Vol. XIII, No. 4, pp. 381-386, Jan. 14, 1901.] 



NOTES ON PASSAMAQUODDY LITERATURE 

 J, Dyneley Prince 



(Read February 24, 1899) 



CONTENTS 



PAGE 



Source of information herein published 381 



Recreations of the Passamaquoddy and Penobscot Indians 381 



Story telling ( hookau tin ) 382 



Example of narrative 382 



Games: Barter by clowns (nolmihigons) 383 



Ball (twiss) 384 



Lacross (elni-epesskeuhdin) 384 



Pull-hair ball (toohon) 384 



Witchcraft, Passamaquoddy Witch song, " The song of the drum " 385 



Bibliography of citations 386 



SOURCE OF INFORMATION HEREIN PUBLISHED 



Like the material previously published by the writer, pertain- 

 ing to the wampum records (Prinxe, '8 ) and to the IVaba- 

 iiaki history (Prince '8 ), the following notes were gathered at 

 Bar Harbor, Maine, from the Passamaquoddy Indians who spend 

 the summer there. They have been arranged chiefly from papers 

 prepared for me in Indian and English by llouis Mitchell, for- 

 mer member of the Maine Legislature for the Passamaquoddy 

 tribe. 



RECREATIONS OF THE PASSAMAQUODDY AND 

 PENOBSCOT INDIANS 



Story-telling. Recreation was never allowed among the 

 Passamaquoddies and Penobscots except during the winter 

 months when the deep snows made sport and war impossible. 

 Perhaps the favorite amusement of the younger people was story- 



(381) 



