Calais, Washington County, Maine, United States, North America
Accession Date:
7 Jan 1974
Notes:
From card: "Birchbark with brown back etched into a scene of: among the trees 4 tepees [sic, should be wigwams] and people, with barrel-bodied oversize figure in center being approached by two other figures on right."
E416199 – E416202A are most probably Passamaquoddy. In April 1890, Jesse Walter Fewkes traveled to Calais, Maine to work with the Passamaquoddy Tribe to test out the new phonograph technology. Fewkes made recordings on 35 wax cylinders (31 of these cylinders survive.) Fewkes also went to Point Pleasant, Maine. See also Fewkes, J. Walter. "A Contribution to Passamaquoddy Folk-Lore." The Journal of American Folklore 3, no. 11 (1890): 257-80. doi:10.2307/534065; stable url https://www.jstor.org/stable/534065 . E416202 is illustrated after p. 257 in the publication.