Keywords: Indigenous clothing
Item 1475
Penobscot moccasins, Bangor, 1834
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: circa 1834 Location: Bangor Media: Leather, wool, cellulosic fiber fabric, silk, glass beads
Item 25027
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society/MaineToday Media Date: 1924 Media: Glass Negative
Exhibit
Northern Threads: Penobscot mocassins
A themed exhibit vignette within "Northern Threads, Part I," about telling stories through Indigenous clothing, featuring an essay by Jennifer Sapiel Neptune (Penobscot.)
Exhibit
The mainspring of fashion is the process whereby members of one class imitate the styles of another, who in turn are driven to ever new expedients of fashionable change.
Site Page
Peary-MacMillan Arctic Museum and Arctic Studies Center
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Story
Reverend Thomas Smith of First Parish Portland
by Kristina Minister, Ph.D.
Pastor, Physician, Real Estate Speculator, and Agent for Wabanaki Genocide
Lesson Plan
Grade Level: 6-8, 9-12, Postsecondary
Content Area: Science & Engineering, Social Studies
This lesson presents an overview of the history of the fur trade in Maine with a focus on the 17th and 18th centuries, on how fashion influenced that trade, and how that trade impacted Indigenous peoples and the environment.
