Keywords: Native American 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 48246
Wabanaki man in regalia, Hallowell, ca. 1865
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: circa 1865 Media: Tintype
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Fashionable Maine: early twentieth century clothing
Maine residents kept pace with the dramatic shift in women’s dress that occurred during the short number of years preceding and immediately following World War I. The long restrictive skirts, stiff collars, body molding corsets and formal behavior of earlier decades quickly faded away and the new straight, dropped waist easy-to-wear clothing gave mobility and freedom of movement in tune with the young independent women of the casual, post-war jazz age generation.
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When Europeans arrived in North America and disrupted traditional Native American patterns of life, they also offered other opportunities: trade goods for furs. The fur trade had mixed results for the Wabanaki.
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"… after John Neptune, Governor of the Penobscot Native American tribe. The steamboat was owned by the Penobscot Navigation Company."
Story
Where are the French?
by Rhea Côté Robbins
Franco-Americans in Maine
Story
An Asian American Account
by Zabrina
An account from a Chinese American teen during the COVID-19 pandemic.
