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The Birch Bark Canoe
MPBN: Home Series, Moving Image, 0:01:20

The birch bark canoe is a symbol of heritage for all four of Maine's native Wabanaki tribes. The process of making the birck-bark canoe today is little different than it has been for thousands of years.

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Evolution of Tribes
MPBN: Home Series, Moving Image, 0:02:44

European explorers first surveyed the region 400 years ago. The present Wabanaki tribes are descended from the tribes which were described in the historical documents by the Europeans.

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Moving Image
View Fred Tomah: Maliseet Basketmaker
UMaine Wabanaki Studies, Moving Image, 00:07:54

Fred is a Maliseet artist. He has developed a distinctive basketmaking style. He learned from elders to make a wide variety of utilitarian basket forms, which he has adapted into art. This segment shows the evolution of his distinctive style and how he creates new forms.

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People of the dawn
MPBN: Home Series, Moving Image, 0:26:37

The first and longest lasting period of Maine’s history is the world of the Native American, stretching from the retreat of the last Ice Age, 12,000 years to the present. People of the Dawn tells the story of the dynamic people who’ve inhabited the landscape of Maine.

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Still Image
Agnes Sawlis Pooler Making a Basket
Maine Folklife Center, Still Image

Photograph of Indian woman seated in chair outdoors by river making a basket. Woman is Agnes Sawlis Pooler (b. July 23, 1884), a Maliseet Indian, who made baskets for the tourist trade in Old Town, Maine in the 1930s.

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Artifact
Beaded Fan Holder
Maine State Museum, Artifact

Beaded fan or nosegay holder, worked with multi-colored beads on red wool, with blue silk binding the edges. The beaded design is worked in circles of pink, clear, green, yellow, red, 3 shades of blue, and cut steel beads. Two rows of white beads outline the edges of the fan holder, which is fan-shaped with a scalloped edge at the top, tapering to a long neck and rounded end. It is lined with red silk and probably interlined with soft leather (it is stiff, but flexible).

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Artifact
Beaded Purse
Maine State Museum, Artifact

Small beaded purse with a rounded bottom and flap covering the opening along the top. Multi-colored glass beads are worked on black wool in a packed floral design. Four-petaled flowers worked in clear beads have blue, yellow, green and dark red leaves. Turquoise beads of a larger size trim the flap edge. The edges are bound with red silk ribbon. The beading is stitched though the black wool and a brown cotton lining.

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Beaded Smoking Cap
Maine State Museum, Artifact



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Berry Picking Basket with Handles
Maine State Museum, Artifact

Small, round bottomed, bail handled berry picking basket; ash splint probably hickory D handle notched into single wrapped rim; regular width of weavers indicated use of splitting gauge; two bands of colored weavers-upper alternating blue and red, lower red; Native American.

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