Mama

Also known as: the woodpecker · Role: woodpecker · First appears: IX · Hiawatha and the Pearl-Feather · Part 2

In IX · Hiawatha and the Pearl-Feather, Mama the woodpecker told Hiawatha where Megissogwon could be wounded: “There alone can he be wounded!” In honor of Mama’s service, Hiawatha stained the tuft of feathers on his head with blood, and Mama’s memory remained dear to him; he adorned his pipe-stem with Mama’s crimson crest as a mark of friendship.

Relationship record

Life events

• Mama told Hiawatha where Megissogwon could be wounded.(IX · Hiawatha and the Pearl-Feather · Part 2)
  • With: Hiawatha
  • “Sang the Mama, the woodpecker: ‘Aim your arrows, Hiawatha, At the head of Megissogwon, Strike the tuft of hair upon it, At their roots the long black tresses; There alone can he be wounded!’”
• Hiawatha stained Mama’s feathers with blood to honor his service.(IX · Hiawatha and the Pearl-Feather · Part 2)
  • With: Hiawatha
  • “And, in honor of his service, Stained with blood the tuft of feathers On the little head of Mama;”

IX · Hiawatha and the Pearl-Feather · Part 2

• recipient: Hiawatha “Suddenly from the boughs above him Sang the Mama, the woodpecker: ‘Aim your arrows, Hiawatha, At the head of Megissogwon, Strike the tuft of hair upon it, At their roots the long black tresses; There alone can he be wounded!’”
• friends with Hiawatha “Ever dear to Hiawatha Was the memory of Mama! And in token of his friendship, As a mark of his remembrance, He adorned and decked his pipe-stem With the crimson tuft of feathers, With the blood-red crest of Mama.”

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Extracted from the original text of The Song of Hiawatha. Made with Rho MD.