Abenaki materials, Frank G. Speck Papers

• Other Authors: Speck, Frank G. (Frank Gouldsmith), 1881-1950, Day, Gordon M., Adney, Edwin Tappan, Dickson, Frederick Stoever, 1850-1925
• Format: Text
• Language: English; unknown
• Published: 1914
• Subjects: Abenaki; Innu; Penobscot; Wabanaki; Linguistics; Anthropology; Ethnography; Folklore; Rites and ceremonies; Religion; Population; Place names; Indian; Kendall; abenaki; montagnais
• Online Access: https://indigenousguide.amphilsoc.org/entry/10086

Materials relating to Abenaki languages and culture. Includes notes on a St. Francis Abenaki [Western Abenaki] conjuring lodge; miscellaneous notes about the St. Francis Abenaki including two cards of reading notes, a typed copy of an Indian poem in English from John Reade (1887), a letter from Frederick S. Dickson regarding Abenaki vocabulary, a letter from Edwin Tappan Adney concerning place names and Maine Indian shamans, and a photomechanical print of Montagnais [aka Innu] in camp; Wawenock [or Wawanoc, Eastern Abenaki] texts taken from Neptune, with interlinear translations [See also Speck (1928b).]; miscellaneous Wawenock notes on vocabulary, folklore, and population, along with a letter from J. P. Ranger about canoes, and three letters from W. C. Kendall, owner of Camp Wawenock, Lake Sebago, Maine, with information about Wawenock and his memories of Wawenock and Penobscot Indians of Maine; and a letter from Gordon M. Day seeking a bibliography and Speck's help in learning Abenaki.