Maine Memory Network

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - The Indian Encampment

"… trinkets, skins of seal and deer, baskets of birch-bark, moccasins, bead-work, snow-shows, gulls’ breasts, stuffed birds, clubs, carved sticks…"

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Northeast Harbor: Rustic to Rusticators

"… from the Natives for amounts of rum, and birch bark deeds were given the buyers. Mt. Desert Island was a wilderness when these early settlers…"

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Guiding Services for Sport Hunters

"… and Steamboat Wharf, Bar Harbor, a number of Birch-bark canoes, in which he will take parties to several Islands in the bay and around Mount Desert…"

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - …then came the settlers…

"… of rum, and documented the deal on a piece of birch bark—which he somehow lost. A “fishy” story, now legendary. In 1761, Somes built his Mt."

Biddeford History & Heritage Project - I. Headwaters of a community: Sowacatuck, Chouacoet, and the sea

"Birch bark box by Mali Agat, ca. 1770Maine Historical Society Whatever the name, these people lived along the Saco River for thousands of years -…"

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Beginnings

"… traveled the ocean, rivers, lakes and ponds in birch bark canoes, making seasonal journeys to hunt and gather wild animal and plant foods."

Hamlin Memorial Library and Museum

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Skowhegan Community History - Abenakis in the Norridgewock/Skowhegan Area

"They were able to go night fishing with birch bark torches. The children would hunt sea birds and spear crabs and lobsters."

Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Fixing Borders on the Land: The Northeastern Boundary in Treaties and Local Reality, 1763-1842 - Page 3 of 5

"… Chief Francis Joseph Neptune shared with Pagan on birch bark as well as Pagan’s letter to Ward Chipman about his meetings with First Nation people…"

Peary-MacMillan Arctic Museum and Arctic Studies Center

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Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - Brief History

"… elevations provided a variety of wood, “…maple, birch, beach, (sic) ash, elm, basswood, pine, hemlock, fir, spruce, cedar with some oak on the…"