Full Name Bungawarrawit Ethnicity Penobscot Occupation shaman | Nationality Penobscot Name Old Neptune Other names Bungawarrawit Died May 8, 1865 | |
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Born July 22, 1767 ( 1767-07-22 ) Resting place St. Andrews, or Indian Point. | ||
Old John Neptune (Penobscot, a member of the Passamaquoddy "Neptune" (also spelled as "Nepton" or "Neptun") family, also (recte) known in his own original Penobscot as Bungawarrawit; July 22, 1762 – May 8, 1865) was a leader of the Penobscot in Maine for fifty years. Neptune was known as a shaman (m'teoulino, in the Penobscot language).
In The Maine Woods (1864), writer Henry David Thoreau described an 1853 visit to Neptune as his Old Town home.
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