Keywords: Brown ash
Item 102631
"Creation" cuff bracelet by Jason Brown, Bangor, 2016
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 2016 Location: Bangor Media: Copper, brown ash
Item 135793
Fancy basket by Hilary Browne, 2017
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 2017 Location: Old Town Media: Black ash, sweetgrass
Exhibit
Yarmouth's "Third Falls" provided the perfect location for papermaking -- and, soon, for producing soda pulp for making paper. At the end of the 19th century and beginning of the 20th, Yarmouth was an international leader in soda pulp production.
Exhibit
Holding up the Sky: Wabanaki people, culture, history, and art
Learn about Native diplomacy and obligation by exploring 13,000 years of Wabanaki residence in Maine through 17th century treaties, historic items, and contemporary artworks—from ash baskets to high fashion. Wabanaki voices contextualize present-day relevance and repercussions of 400 years of shared histories between Wabanakis and settlers to their region.
Site Page
"… of a fireplace screen were recovered from the ashes. Fireplace HardwareFarmington Historical Society The influence of the Titcomb family is…"
Site Page
Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - Railroad into the Village
"… is to be sustained [principally] by oak and brown ash piles…. If ice freshets do not disturb them, and fire and other forces leave them alone, the…"
Story
Wikpiyik: The Basket Tree
by Darren Ranco
Countering the Emerald Ash Borer with Wabanaki Ecological Knowledge
Story
The Tomah Basket
by James Boyce
Learning to make Maliseet Tomah baskets
