Case file · Folklore / legend
Maushop, the giant of Aquinnah
In Wampanoag tradition the giant Maushop shaped Martha's Vineyard and Nantucket and lived by the coloured clay cliffs of Aquinnah with his wife, Granny Squannit.
1792 CE · 41.35, -70.83 · status: legend
The account
The stories were first written down by colonists in the late 18th century, and are still told by the Wampanoag of Aquinnah and Mashpee today. In them Maushop's pipe smoke is the fog and his discarded moccasin-sand became Nantucket.