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Canoe Paddle

Long, wooden canoe paddle. Painted dark grey.

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Canoe Paddle

Wooden canoe paddle, painted grey.

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Canoe Paddle

Wooden canoe paddle with long, straight blade. Painted red.

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Straight Blade, Southern Quebec Native style Canoe Paddle. This paddle was made by a Stanstead Quebec Abenaki Man. It has the Wabanaki blade-ridge to strengthen the paddle, a detail found on Maine Native paddles, but the pommel and the blade are unlike those more common eastern Wabanaki paddles.

Canoe Paddle

Butternut canoe paddle, varnished

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This butternut paddle is from Western Maine and retains a bit of the classic “Long lead” of more easterly Penobscot and Passamaquoddy paddles. It has the distinct sharp ridge on the upper blade to add strength to the paddle.

Canoe Paddle

Ash canoe paddle

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Canoe Paddle

Wooden canoe paddle with red paint

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This is very important as the only example that we have of a mid-19th century “long-lead” Wabanaki style paddle with a good Abenaki provenance. It once had a nice red ochre paint job, mostly worn away now. Rounded pommel, damaged blade

Canoe Paddle

Wooden canoe paddle with worn, red paint

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Canoe Paddle

Unpainted, wooden canoe paddle

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This is very important as the only example that we have of a later -19th century “short-lead” paddle with a good Abenaki provenance from Northern New Hampshire. It has the distinctive Abenaki thin, parallel-sided blade seen years later from southern Quebec and the northern Lake Champlain region. It has the distinct sharp ridge on the upper blade to add strength to the paddle. It is entirely hand carved, without sanding, probably with a crooked knife and has no finish. The date is a guess.

Self-Portrait

Carved marble self-portrait bust by Larkin Mead. Mead wears a suit jacket, buttoned vest, and a shirt with a tall collar and textured silk-like bowtie. Mead's short hair is combed neatly back from his face and his mustache and goatee also appear combed and styled. The bust rests on a short columnar base with turned and flared top and base edges.

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Sign

Painted particle board sign for the Austine School. The sign is painted blue over yellow and reads "Welcome to Austine" in black stylized print across the top with the school's tri-mountain insignia in white behind the center. Below the black text is the same phrase in sign language, with each hand painted bright white with lighter black lines for finger and hand position and definition, with arrows pointing in various directions to signify how one's hands should move when signing the letters. There are ten holes drilled around the sides to hang the sign up--four each on the top and bottom edges and one each at the center of each lateral side. The sign is inscribed, "Mural Created By Jaclyn. FP, Steven. C, and Wayne. T Spring 2003"

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Austine School for the Deaf Brattleboro, VT

Sign

A red, white, and black informational road sign. The sign reads "COVID-19" in white lettering on red background and "IF YOU ENTER VT YOU MUST ISOLATE HEALTHVERMONT.GOV" in black lettering on white background. There is a black border around the sign and also separates "COVID-19" from the rest of the text.

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Produced by the State of Vermont during the Covid-19 pandemic. These were placed at all highway exits.

Sign

A red, white, and black informational road sign. The sign reads "COVID-19" in white lettering on a red background and "QUARATINE REQUIREMENTS IN PLACE HEALTHVERMONT.GOV" in back lettering on a white background. There is a black border around the sign and also separates "COVID-19" from the rest of the text.

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Produced by the State of Vermont during the Covid-19 pandemic. These were placed at all highway exits.

Toboggan

Sled made from four wooden slats and six cross-braces

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The toboggan was purchased from an antique dealer at the Brimfield Antique market from a dealer who was amazed to have found it in a barn in central Vermont. It is one of the few native toboggans from south of the St. Lawrence River. It is definitely native made and shows the distinctive lashing holes that define the ethnic style. These were traditionally used to bring back the butchered body of a moose to the camp or village.