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Keywords: Colonization
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Item 28379
Title: G.W. Pierce on religious convert, Brunswick, ca. 1825
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society
Date: circa 1825
Location: Baldwin; Brunswick
Media: Ink on paper
Item 7494
Title: Map of New England, New York, ca. 1676
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society
Date: circa 1676
Media: Map, hand colored
Item 5905
Title: Panama Railroad's engine 'Colon'
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society
Date: 1865
Location: Portland
Media: Albumen photoprint
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Exhibit
In the early 1600s, French explorers and colonizers in the New World quickly adopted a Native American mode of transportation to get around during the harsh winter months: the snowshoe. Most Northern societies had some form of snowshoe, but the Native Americans turned it into a highly functional item. French settlers named snowshoes "raquettes" because they resembled the tennis racket then in use.