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Gluskap of the Wabanaki

The Indian Puck, or Robin Good-Fellow, ca. 1884

The Indian Puck, or Robin Good-Fellow, ca. 1884

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The stories live on in image as well as work

Tomah Joseph (1837-1914), a Passamaquoddy Indian living at Peter Dana Point, etched the "Mikamwes" illustration on birchbark for the book Algonquin Legends of New England or Myths and Folk Lore of the Micmac, Passamaquoddy, and Penobscot Tribes by Charles G. Leland (1884).

Joseph also incorporated images relating to Gluskap stories on his baskets and other birchbark work, for which he was very well known.