Abbe Museum

Exhibitions

2008 Waponahki Student Art Show

A collaboration of Maine Indian Education and the Abbe Museum.  More artwork.

Pouring Prayers

Haley Francis, Penobscot, Grade 6

Spirit in the Horizon

Jasmine Thompson, Penobscot, Grade 8

   
   

Layers of Time:
Archaeology at the Abbe Museum

This exhibition takes visitors through a number of major archaeological excavation projects conducted by the Abbe throughout Maine. In each case it includes artifacts found at the site and answers the questions “What did they want to know?” and “What have we learned?” Among the artifacts are a cast of a skeleton of a 4,000-year-old dog and the first pilot whale skull found in a shell midden in Maine, dating from 2,000 to 1,200 years ago. Other artifacts include a group of remarkably preserved, unbroken arrowheads found at another site dating from 2,000 to 1,200 years ago.

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Journeys West: The David and Peggy Rockefeller American Indian Art Collection

It is a tiny pot, the smallest item in the collection.  Yet, it holds the story of this exhibition.  The story is about a pivotal period in American Indian history when artists, anthropologists, art patrons and tourists converged in the Southwest and transformed attitudes toward and possibilities for the creative endeavors of Native peoples.

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First pot purchased by David Rockefeller in 1926.
Polychrome pot, Maria Martinez, San Ildefonso
3" tall, 4"diameter
Collection of Robert and Midge Binnewies

 
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