the famous hunter (Addik Kum Maig legend)

Role: father · First appears: Addik Kum Maig; or, the Origin of the White Fish

In Addik Kum Maig; or, the Origin of the White Fish, the famous hunter lived with the handsome wife (Addik Kum Maig legend) and their two sons, the elder son (Addik Kum Maig legend) and the younger son (Addik Kum Maig legend), who stayed in the lodge while he hunted. At length, his sons told him of their mother’s secret visits, revealing her infidelity; satisfied of this, he killed her with his war-club and buried her beneath the ashes of his fire.

The family adopted the crane (Addik Kum Maig legend) as its totem and ancestral mark, which the account says remained the band’s distinguishing sign “to this day.”

Relationship record

Life events

• The sons told their father about their mother's secret visits, revealing her infidelity.(Addik Kum Maig; or, the Origin of the White Fish)
  • With: the elder son (Addik Kum Maig legend) the younger son (Addik Kum Maig legend) the handsome wife (Addik Kum Maig legend)
  • “They did so. The result was such as might have been anticipated. The father, being satisfied of the infidelity of his wife,”
• The famous hunter killed his wife and buried her under the ashes of his fire.(Addik Kum Maig; or, the Origin of the White Fish)
  • With: the handsome wife (Addik Kum Maig legend)
  • “with a single blow of his war-club dispatched her. He then buried her under the ashes of his fire,”
• The man's family adopted the crane as their totem and ancestral mark.(Addik Kum Maig; or, the Origin of the White Fish)
  • With: the crane (Addik Kum Maig legend)
  • “The family of this man, in gratitude for their deliverance, adopted the crane as their totem, or ancestral mark; and this continues to be the distinguishing tribal sign of the band to this day.”

Addik Kum Maig; or, the Origin of the White Fish

• married with the handsome wife (Addik Kum Maig legend) “He had a handsome wife and two sons, who were left in the lodge every day, while he went out in quest of the animals, upon whose flesh they subsisted.”
• child: the elder son (Addik Kum Maig legend) “He had a handsome wife and two sons, who were left in the lodge every day, while he went out in quest of the animals, upon whose flesh they subsisted.”
• child: the younger son (Addik Kum Maig legend) “He had a handsome wife and two sons, who were left in the lodge every day, while he went out in quest of the animals, upon whose flesh they subsisted.”
• enemies with the handsome wife (Addik Kum Maig legend) “The father, being satisfied of the infidelity of his wife, watched a suitable occasion, when she was separated from the children, that they might not have their feelings excited, and with a single blow of his war-club dispatched her.”

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