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Title: Glooskap looking at the whale smoking his pipe

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society

Date: 1884

Media: Ink on paper

Gifts From Gluskabe: Maine Indian Artforms

According to legend, the Great Spirit created Gluskabe, who shaped the world of the Native People of Maine, and taught them how to use and respect the land and the resources around them. This exhibit celebrates the gifts of Gluskabe with Maine Indian art works from the early nineteenth to mid twentieth centuries.