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Wabanaki guides with canoes, Bar Harbor, 1881

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

"Parties wishing to Hunt or Camp in Maine can secure an Excellent Guide by addressing Joe Pierpoll, Princeton, Maine, the best Indian guide in the…"

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Swan's Island: Six miles east of ordinary - I. Canoes and Clamshells: The Pre-European Settlement Years

Swan's Island: Six miles east of ordinary - I. Canoes and Clamshells: The Pre-European Settlement Years

"… expertly handling canoes and hunting seal and porpoise. Swan’s Island may have attracted this tribe as a seasonal or even permanent home."

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Wabanaki encampment, Bar Harbor, ca. 1890

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Indians & Rusticators: Wabanakis & Summer Visitors on Mount Desert Island 1840s-1920s

"… set up, and the hunters racing in the Bay for porpoises, we were sure that the ‘season’ had really begun. -Albert L."

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Men carrying a whale fin, Ragged Island, 1927

Historic Hallowell - Whaling

"… with were small, such as the Pilot Whale, Beluga, Porpoise and Narwhal. The next method that was used was using a tool called a drogue, which is a…"

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John Gray, Fryeburg, ca. 1980

Skowhegan Community History - Abenakis in the Norridgewock/Skowhegan Area

"… men went deep sea spearing for (Passamaquoddy) porpoises and seals. Fall/Winter - Before the frosts came, the women and children went into the…"