Contributed by Abbe Museum
Description
This image, from Scribner's Magazine, depicts a man stirring a cauldron of blubber. Cooking pots at the Wabanaki encampment in Bar Harbor were also used for “trying” (extracting) porpoise oil by boiling the blubber.
Porpoise hunting was common among Wabanaki men, especially the Passamaquoddy. The oil was in great demand for fueling lighthouses and lubricating clockworks.
About This Item
- Title: Trying out blubber, 1880
- Creator: Milton J. Burns
- Creation Date: 1880
- Subject Date: 1880
- Location:
- Media: Printed material
- Dimensions: 8.5 cm x 6 cm
- Collection: Archives - Native Americans, Historic
- Object Type: Text and Image
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Standardized Subject Headings
- Indians of North America
- Indians of North America--Maine--Passamaquoddy Indians
- Passamaquoddy Indians
- Tryworks
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For more information about this item, contact:
Abbe Museum26 Mount Desert Street, PO Box 286, Bar Harbor, ME 04609
(207) 288-3519
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