pawkunnawkut

Updated: May 20, 2025

And some pretended to have seen distinctly the form of a tall man wading into the water to grasp whales. The forced visit to its shores of Tackanash, the Pawkunnawkut, made them see it was not the dream of a sleeper who has eaten too much meat, but like that which men see with their eyes when they are awake, and would talk only what the Good Spirit may hear.

James Athearn Jones - Traditions of the North American Indians, Vol. 2

I answer, he was a Spirit, but whence he came, when first he landed in our Indian country, I know not. As it was very heavy the tortoise tried to roll it off, but the Great Spirit would not let him, and whipped him till he lay still. Moshup told the Pawkunnawkut that he once lived upon the main land.

James Athearn Jones - Traditions of the North American Indians, Vol. 2