the wife of Odshedoph Waucheentongah

Role: wife and mother · First appears: Pah-hah-undootah, the Red Head · Part 1

In Pah-hah-undootah, the Red Head · Part 1, she traveled with Odshedoph Waucheentongah and their son to a forest encampment. The next day, she dressed deer skin and made moccasins for her son as he prepared for a journey. In Pah-hah-undootah, the Red Head · Part 2, their son returned to his parents; they recognized him after seeing his trophy, though they believed him mad when he recounted his adventures.

Relationship record

Life events

• Odshedoph Waucheentongah separated from the other families and traveled with his wife and son to a forest encampment.(Pah-hah-undootah, the Red Head · Part 1)
  • With: Odshedoph Waucheentongah the son of Odshedoph Waucheentongah
  • “Among the families who thus separated themselves, on a certain occasion, there was a man called Odshedoph Waucheentongah, or the Child of Strong Desires, who had a wife and one son. After a day's travel he reached an ample wood with his family, which was thought to be a suitable place to encamp.”
• The son prepared for a journey, and his mother made him moccasins from the deer skin.(Pah-hah-undootah, the Red Head · Part 1)
  • With: the son of Odshedoph Waucheentongah
  • “The next day he asked his mother to dress the skin of the deer, and make it into moccasins for him, while he busied himself in preparing a bow and arrows.”
• The adventurer returned to his parents, who recognized him after seeing his trophy.(Pah-hah-undootah, the Red Head · Part 2 · 📍 the village)
  • With: the son of Odshedoph Waucheentongah Odshedoph Waucheentongah
  • “It was still longer before they recognized him for their son; when he recounted his adventures they believed him mad.”

Pah-hah-undootah, the Red Head · Part 1

• married with Odshedoph Waucheentongah “there was a man called Odshedoph Waucheentongah, or the Child of Strong Desires, who had a wife and one son.”
• child: the son of Odshedoph Waucheentongah “He urged him to go, saying that his mother, as well as himself, was tired, and the distance to the water was very short.”

Pah-hah-undootah, the Red Head · Part 2

• child: the son of Odshedoph Waucheentongah “On entering the village he found his parents had returned from the place of their spring encampment, and were in great sorrow for their son, whom they supposed to be lost.”

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Extracted from the original text of The Myth of Hiawatha, and Other Oral Legends. Made with Rho MD.