Birchbark Canoe

Penobscot/Abenaki ocean canoe. Built for the Penobscot Marine Museum with funds from an NEH Grant by Abenaki Aaron York and his assistants Hugga Dana and Gwenhuwhet Dana of the Penobscot Nation, summer 2006. Paddled by Hugga Dana on day of launch.

Launched on 9/9/2006 in Searsport Harbor.

Photograph by and courtesy of Wayne Hamilton.