Old John Neptune
| John Neptune | |
|---|---|
| Born |
Bungawarrawit July 22, 1767 |
| Died | May 8, 1865 (aged 97) |
| Resting place | St. Andrews, or Indian Point. |
| Residence | Indian Island, Maine |
| Nationality | Penobscot |
| Other names | Bungawarrawit |
| Occupation | shaman |
Old John Neptune (Penobscot, a member of the Passamaquoddy "Neptune" (also spelled as "Nepton" or "Neptun") family, also (recte) known in his own original Penobscot as Bungawarrawit;[1] July 22, 1762 – May 8, 1865) was a leader of the Penobscot Nation in Maine for fifty years. Neptune was known as a shaman (m'teoulino, in the Penobscot language).[2]
In The Maine Woods (1864), writer Henry David Thoreau described an 1853 visit to Neptune as his Old Town home.[3]
References
- ↑ Raymond, William Odber (1905). Glimpses of the Past. History of the river St. John A. D. 1604-1784. (e-text). Saint John, New Brunswick. p. 298. OCLC 15715006. Retrieved 10 October 2009.
- ↑ Eckstorm, Fannie Hardy (1945). Old John Neptune and Other Maine Indian Shamans. Portland, Maine: Southworth-Anthoensen Press. OCLC 887635.
- ↑ Thoreau, Henry David (1864). The Maine Woods (Project Gutenberg text). pp. 199–200. ISBN 9781420927146. OCLC 437036255. Retrieved 10 October 2009.
He told me that he was eighty-nine ; but he was going a-moose-hunting that fall, as he had been the previous one.
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