Keywords: Traditional crafts
Item 99274
Penobscot basket makers, Lincolnville, ca. 1940
Contributed by: Penobscot Marine Museum Date: circa 1940 Location: Lincolnville Media: Photo negative
Item 23508
Passamaquoddy birchbark dish, ca. 2000
Contributed by: Hudson Museum, Univ. of Maine Date: circa 2000 Location: Pleasant Point Media: Birchbark, spruce root
Exhibit
CODE RED: Climate, Justice & Natural History Collections
Explore topics around climate change by reuniting collections from one of the nation's earliest natural history museums, the Portland Society of Natural History. The exhibition focuses on how museums collect, and the role of humans in creating changes in society, climate, and biodiversity.
Exhibit
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.
Site Page
Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Early Performance
"… shows and traditional song and dance, selling crafts and posing for photographs in Indian dress."
Site Page
View collections, facts, and contact information for this Contributing Partner.
Story
Co-founding Halcyon Yarn and learning to weave
by Hector Jaeger
Moving to Maine, Halcyon Yarn, and rediscovering the joy of weaving
Story
History of Forest Gardens
by Gary Libby
This is a history of one of Portland's oldest local bars
Lesson Plan
Longfellow's Ripple Effect: Journaling With the Poet - "The Song of Hiawatha"
Grade Level: 6-8, 9-12
Content Area: English Language Arts, Social Studies
This lesson is part of a series of six lesson plans that will give students the opportunity to become familiar with the works of Longfellow while reflecting upon how his works speak to their own experiences.
