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Technology & Tradition: Shaping Indigenous Collections For The Future, Gretchen Faulkner, Harold Jacobs, Alex Cole, Jonathan Roy, Reed Hayden, Anna Martin, Duane Shimmel

Technical Publications

The Hudson Museum received a UMAI seed grant to support
a collaboration with the Advanced Structures and Composites
Center and Intermedia Programs to replicate a culturally -
sensitive object in our collection. This is a technical publication to describe the process of replicating a Tlingit Frog Clan Helmet (HM5040) requested for repatriation by the Central Council of Tlingit and Haida Indian Tribes of Alaska (CCTHITA).

Kuna Mola Tradition: The Jane Gruver Collection, Jane Gruver

Molas Collection

Jane Gruver, the Mola Lady, collected these molas between 1964 and the present to document the tradition and its evolution. Jane had a keen eye for selecting works that were well executed and artistic, but also documented the world of the Kuna and their traditions. These molas were set aside by Jane and were destined as a museum collection. They are now among the holdings of the Hudson Museum and join other molas donated by Jane.

Molas are reverse applique panels made in pairs for the front and back of women’s blouses. Several layers of cloth are stacked together and …

Molas: The Jane Gruver Collection, Jane Gruver

Molas Collection

For over 40 years, Jane Gruver, "the Mola Lady," and her husband Dr. Daniel Gruver lived and worked among the Kuna of the San Blas Islands of Panama. Jane acquired a deep appreciation and understanding of Kuna mola making and collected the molas presented here to document this tradition. Beginning in 1994, she began to donate molas to the Hudson Museum as a way of recording this artform and the lifeways of the Kuna for the future.

Molas are reverse appliqued fabric panels made to adorn women's blouses and were probably derived from body painting of the pre-Conquest era. The …

Salt, 2007-2008, Salt Institute For Documentary Studies

Salt Magazine Archive

SALT telling Maine stories. Published by the Salt Institute for Documentary Studies. Number 65. 2007-2008.

Contents

• 2 The ABCs of ESL a photo essay by Maisie Crow. Stephen Dyro teaches Beginning ESK in the very same classroom where he was a student at Portland High School. Some of his students were never literate in their native language; now they are learning to read and right.
• 10 “Peacy Keen and Wonderful” written by Kelsey Abbott, photography by Ashley Bailey. Lee Hudson and her husband, Heath, harvest, and market mussels and seaweed through their company, Frenchman Bay Fisheries. They have struggled to …

Salt, 2006-2007, Salt Institute For Documentary Studies

Salt Magazine Archive

SALT telling Maine stories. Published by the Salt Institute for Documentary Studies. Number 63 / 64. 2006-2007.

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• 6 Island Time a photo essay by Rebecca Stewart. On Eagle Island, the days pass essentially the same as they have for generations. Helen and Bob Quinn, and their grandson, Sam, spend their days cooking, lobstering, and exploring.
• 14 When Josh Got Sick a photo essay by Kim Alexander On June 17, 2004, Josh Howe collapsed in his living room. Later that day doctors removed a plum sized tumor from his brain that had been growing there since birth. Morgan, Josh’s little …

Salt, 2005-2006, Salt Institute For Documentary Studies

Salt Magazine Archive

SALT telling Maine stories. Published by the Salt Institute for Documentary Studies. Number 60 / 61. 2005-2006.

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• 4 Until Their Feet Leave the Sand by Whit Richardson, photos by Elizabeth M. Claffey When two brothers in the Maine National Guard are called to serve as part of Operation Iraqi Freedom, their respective families unite to hold down the fort.
• 18 Turn It On, Turn It Up, and Kick Some Butt photo essay by Jennifer Whitney. With support from their mom and dad, Brooke, and Stephanie Hammond have already won seventeen beauty pageant titles.
• 24 Portland on Three by Chris …

Salt, 2004-2005, Salt Institute For Documentary Studies

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SALT telling Maine stories. Published by the Salt Institute for Documentary Studies. Number 59 / 60. 2004-2005.

Contents

• 3 Reverence by Jennifer Andrews
• 4 Ride This Train by Brendan Hughes, photos by Tim Greenway. Experience the rickets and tendons along the backbone of the old Boston and Maine Railroad.
• 16 Off the Maine Road: To be Raymond Strout photo essay by Holly Wilmeth. With a hoe and bucket in hand, blood wormers work in time with the ocean’s heave and swell.
• 24 Mussel Men by Susan Gaidos, photos by Kate Fox. Mussels: A crop changing the way fishermen once fished. …

Salt, 2003-2004, Salt Institute For Documentary Studies

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SALT telling Maine stories. Published by the Salt Institute for Documentary Studies. Number 57 / 58. 2003-2004. Staying on. A Dexter story after the Shoe. A sheep farmer uses only salt water and sunlight for her wool. Veterans speak from the edgy shadows of their memories.

Contents

• 3 Staying On by Terry Farish
• 4 Uphill Either Way by Carrie Kilman, photographs by Jenifer Dean. T-Bob’s Taxi—A Dexter story after The Shoe.
• 18 James at Risk photo essay by Lesley MacVane. A 16-year old boy at odds with the world is also a poet.
• 26 Waa Nabad: Somali Community in Lewiston …

Salt, Summer 2002, Salt Institute For Documentary Studies

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SALT Summer 2002.

Contents

• 4 How to Peel a Persimmon Learning about growth of the Cambodian community in Portland. Krista Mahr, Lissa Gotwals
• 18 Unmasked. Facing Trans Identity in Portland, Maine. A photo essay. Joanna Johnson
• 24 Welcome at Shaw’s Just off the Appalachian Trail in Monson, Maine, rests Shaw’s Boarding Home, which always has its doors open to hikers. Sally Schumaier, Lorienne Schulze
• 40 Breathing in the Day The Peabody House serves as the first AIDS hospice in Maine. Jessi Misslin, Andres Gonzalez
• 54 Aborokporo The daily life of a Sudanese family in Portland. A photo essay. Kyle Glover …

Salt, Spring 2002, Salt Institute For Documentary Studies

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SALT Spring 2002.

Contents

• 4 Two Eggs, Toast, Homefries Marcy’s Breakfast and Lunch, a Portland landmark. Thea Okonak, Megan Dalrymple
• 16 Large Animal Veterinarian All creatures great and small, but mostly great. A photo essay. Katie Terrill
• 22 The Odd Fellows Theatre In Buckfield, a family theatre that has sold out 29 of 30 performances. Eric Larson, Brea Walker
• 36 Liz Leddy: Portrait of a Boxer A young woman trains at the Portland Boxing Club. A photo essay. Christine Heinz
• 44 The Witch is In Wicca is a faith and freedom. For Cynthia Collins, the freedom is what makes being …

Salt Omnibus 2001, Salt Institute For Documentary Studies

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SALT Omnibus 2001.

Contents

• 4 The Song of Objects The art of collecting threads together portraits of four highly individual collectors from Maine.
• 18 Baked Beans in a Pot Almost a million cans of baked beans leave B & M’s Portland plant every week. A photo essay depicts the day-to-day life of the “family” of bean factory workers.
• 26 Bush Piloting in Maine Pilots share their stories of a time when the only means of transportation in northwestern Maine meant navigating by landmarks to fly anything and anyone in and out of the bush.
• 38 Reinventing Eve Two religious leaders …

Salt Omnibus 2000, Salt Institute For Documentary Studies

Salt Magazine Archive

SALT Omnibus 2000.

Contents

• 8 Engine House Locomotives are unforgiving beasts to repair. The men in the engine house know they’d as soon crush you as look at you.
• 18 The Infiltration of Hip Hop Hip Hop comes to Maine via New York
• 24 Heirs of the Damariscotta People along the Damariscotta River’s path to the coast value its unspoiled water and vistas. Development is the threat.
• 40 Best of Both Worlds Intercultural families in southern Maine. A photo essay.
• 48 Snowmobile Town Jackman, Maine, is a busy hub for snowmobiling, which ahs lifted the border town out of its …

The Maine Folklife Center Curriculum Guide, Irene Jackson

Northeast Folklore Monographs

The Maine Folklife Center Curriculum Guide is a way to bring life into Maine Studies curricula by personalizing history and creating new connections between students and their communities. The guide is geared to help teachers fulfill the Maine Department of Education Learning Results (July, 1997), many of which call for primary research and the understanding of individual lives in an historical context. Specifically, the guide presents an introduction to using the Maine Folklife Center and four units: one on conducting oral histories, one on games, and two on the lumbering life. The games and lumbering units are based on selections …

Salt, Vol. 13, No. 2, Salt Institute For Documentary Studies

Salt Magazine Archive

SALT. Published by the Salt Center for Documentary Field Studies. Number 50. Four Dollars. “Yelana and Mohammed go to school with children from 25 countries learning a new language in Maine.”

Contents

• 2 Nineteen Pine Street Around the corner from Salt waited a compelling story about a school. We tell it in this issue, challenging negative press about Reiche.
• 4 Myrtle Myrtle Lowell left home at age 13 to go to work. That was more than 70 years ago. She’s never had time for needlework. “Course not! God almighty! Only the Southern ladies could do that. Not us old crows.” …

Salt, Vol. 13, No. 1, Salt Institute For Documentary Studies

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SALT. Published by the Salt Center for Documentary Field Studies. Number 49. Four Dollars. “Women’s work is fighting fires. Vicki’s job. Building bridges. Shoeing horses. Fishing. Women entering the trades.”

Contents

• 2 Nineteen Pine Street Going overboard—and aboard—to get the story, whether it’s groundfishing or hanging out at Amistad.
• 5 Women’s Work Redefining women’s work. A look at 16 Maine women in the trades. Their work ranges from pipe fitting to construction to truck driving.
• 14 Grounding the Boats For groundfishermen like Lendall Alexander, the crisis is here. A way of life his family has known for four generations may …

Salt, Vol. 12, No. 3-4, Salt Institute For Documentary Studies

Salt Magazine Archive

The SALT OMMIBUS. Numbers 47 & 48. Nine dollars. A Special Book-length Double Issue of Salt Stories and Photographs. Published by the Salt Center for Documentary Studies.

Contents

• 4 Comments The Maine Salt sees—22 years of changing and staying the same. By Pamela Holley Wood.
• 6 Northwoods Balladeer Living what he sings about. By Kristin Brit Peaterson. Photographs by Roland Laigo.
• 17 “Time and Place Teach You” Ethiopian family in Maine. A photographic essay by Stephanie Mitchell.
• 25 What are Cows For? The BST debate on the farm. By Tim Hughes. Photographs by Judith Bennett.
• 45 John Lee Blind but …

Salt, Vol. 11, No. 4, Salt Institute For Documentary Studies

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Published by the Salt Center for Documentary Field Studies. Viginia and her child find a place in Maine's broccoli harvest, where 350 migrants “try to make it a home.”Content

• 3 Nineteen Pine Street Soon the Salt Center will expand to Seventeen Pine next door, doubling its size and expanding its educational programs.
• 4 Contradancing: Rowdies and Revivalists Maine has its “rowdies” that dance and play their music like the old time country dances of 50 years ago. And it has its “revivalists” that practice English contradances learned from Boston.
• 20 Broccoli Harvest Move over potatoes, here comes the broccoli …

Salt, Vol. 11, No. 3, Salt Institute For Documentary Studies

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20th Anniversary Issue. Documenting a Region: Maine in Words and Photographs. Making Violins. A Tale of Two Workplaces. Old Things. Frontier Maine begins at the edge of Greenville, unless you are a settler’s great grandson claiming the landscape of childhood.

Content
• 2 Nineteen Pine Street How this issue of Salt was made and who made it.
• 4 Greenville: the Shifting Frontier As long as Ed Walden’s around, you can’t take the frontier out of Greenville. You can’t Ed out either — except on a slab. We look at Greenville through the eyes of some of its people.
• 18 Radio and …

Salt, Vol. 12, No. 2, Salt Institute For Documentary Studies

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SALT. Published by the Salt Center for Documentary Field Studies. “Monica waitresses in a bar. What she does is not where she’s at. She’s waiting to get there. Call it the 20-nothings.”

Contents

• 3 Nineteen Pine Street Yes! Gallery hours year round begin in December, opening Salt’s documentary photography collection to the public for the first time.
• 4 Cambodian Wedding in Maine The bride and groom are part of Portland’s growing Cambodian community. Their traditional wedding ceremony took four hours and is important to preserving the customs of their ancestors.
• 15 Twenty Nothings Call them the twenty nothings crowd. Call …

Salt, Vol. 11, No. 2, Salt Institute For Documentary Studies

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Documenting a Region: Maine in Words and Photographs. Pristine Castine. Harvesting Granite. Good Earth Farm. Tattoo Ernie, like many Mainers, marches to a different drummer. So do stone cutter Henry Bray and farmer Eric Brandt-Meyer.

Content
• 3 Nineteen Pine Street How this issue of Salt was made and who made it.
• 4 Fast Forward and Rewind A new feature. We look ahead at what’s to come and readers comment on what’s behind.
• 5 Salt Sense: Editorial In Salt’s 20 years of documenting Maine people, we have grown accustomed to remarkable lives — but unremarkable deaths. This changed with the life …

Salt, Vol. 12, No. 1, Salt Institute For Documentary Studies

Salt Magazine Archive

SALT. Published by the Salt Center for Documentary Field Studies. “Marim works in Maine’s new booming urchin industry. Pickers like her, divers, and processors rake in the profits.”

Contents

• 3 Nineteen Pine Street The Salt Center is organizing a major photographic retrospective.
• 6 Urchins! Urchin beds on the ledges off Maine’s coastline rival the gold fields of California for making a quick buck. Maine’s newest fishery industry sends a crop to Japan that was worthless seven years ago. Divers, buyers, pickers, and processors pocket the profits.
• 15 Picking Uni for Japan Picking urchin roe, called “uni” in Japan, is hard …

Salt, Vol. 11, No. 1, Salt Institute For Documentary Studies

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Documenting a Region: Maine in Words and Photographs. Making Minyan. Family Dairy Farm. Digging for Gems. Tradition dies hard when it’s part of your life and nine more people need you on Congress Street at five o'clock or sooner.

Content
• 3 Nineteen Pine Street Contributors and notes about this issue.
• 5 The Photographer’s Voice Five Maine photographers talk about their work in an open forum with Salt’s photographic students. Here are the voices that inform the images of Tom Donaldson, Arthur Fink, Tony King, Jack McConnell, and Marta Morse.
• 8 Digging For Gems Oxford County’s mineral-rich veins keep rockhounds like …

Salt, Vol. 10, No. 4, Salt Institute For Documentary Studies

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Documenting a Region: Maine in Words and Photographs. Artists in Belfast. Aroostook Potato Farm. City Street Scenes. Streets like Tyng and Tate in the West End of Portland have seen it all — longshore families, slums, urban renewal, and boom times.

Content
• 3 Nineteen Pine Street Contributors and notes about this issue.
• 5 Maine Journal The passing of Emmy McLean, Harvey Bixby, and other tales of the region, with a nod to Ronald Blythe.
• 7 A Sense of Place: Having It, Losing It What happens to the people of Maine communities undergoing change? Like the gentrification of old Belfast. Or …

Salt, Vol. 10, No. 3, Salt Institute For Documentary Studies

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Documenting a Region: Maine in Words and Photographs. Selling The Folk — A Special Issue on Folk and Pop Culture. Maine: The way life should be. That’s how Downeast folks and the landscape are romanticized to attract city dwellers.

Content
• 3 Nineteen Pine Street Contributors and notes about this issue.
• 5 Maine Journal A new twist and some old potholes in the Maine turnpike widening controversy.
• 6 From Folk to Pop and Back Again Salt invited scholars to a conference to talk about how folk culture and pop culture interact. Folk culture as in us authentic Downeast folk and pop …

Salt, Vol. 10, No. 2, Salt Institute For Documentary Studies

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Documenting a Region: Maine in Words and Photographs. Maine’s Ethnic Groups: Part 2 — Franco-Irish-Swedish-Americans. Shanty Irish to lace curtain Irish. That’s what Skip Matson has seen. Still the Greenhorns come, from Galway and the troubled north.

Content
• 3 Nineteen Pine Street Contributors and notes about this issue.
• 5 Maine Journal A Great Northern milltown gets rich quick, but the future looks threatening. More on illiteracy and Emily Kinney.
• 7 Ethnic Groups of Maine Want to know how many Russians live in Maine? And here’s one for you. Blacks outnumbered Maine’s Native Americans two centuries ago. Facts about Maine’s ethnic …

Salt, Vol. 10, No. 1, Salt Institute For Documentary Studies

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The magazine about the really important people of Maine. Maine’s New and Old Ethnic Groups — First of Two Parts. Kansath Pon is now a Mainer. She takes her place in the ethnic mix begun when Yankees first settled on Wabanaki land.

Content
• 3 Nineteen Pine Street Contributors and notes about this issue.
• 5 Maine Journal A new feature this issue. Who commutes? Most Mainers. Plus a barbershop view of the economy. And BIW expansion.
• 7 Yankees and Other Ethnics Ethnic gounps in Maine-including Yankees-are not part of a homogenious “melting pot,” argues sociologist Peter Rose. They are distinct contributors …

Salt, Vol. 9, No. 4, Salt Institute For Documentary Studies

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The magazine about the really important people of Maine. Flea Markets. Jamaican Apple Pickers. Peaks Island. Flea Markets are as Maine as pine trees and lobsters. What’s a flea? “Anything that’s been used, abused, and ready for resale.”

Content

• 3 Eating in Maine If you want to eat where the locals eat) this is where you’ll find them-where prices are right and the talk is familiar.
• 7 Letters to the Editor
• 9 View from Pier Road The end of an era for Salt and the beginning of a new one, as we move north to Portland.
• 10 Flea Market What …

Salt, Vol. 7, No. 3, Salt Institute For Documentary Studies

Salt Magazine Archive

Mussel Wars. One Room Schoolhouses. No to Nuclear Waste. Lobstermen are losing their turf to aquaculture, say three generations of Carlsons in Tenants Harbor. A million more pounds of mussel meat than lobster meat were landed in 1985 as the sea is “fenced” for farming.

Content

• 3 The View from Pier Road A new feature starting this issue in Salt.
• 6 Deacon’s Bench Tom Bradbury’s column reflects the native Mainer’s attitude about party going.
• 7 “Crazy Avery” Avery Kelley, Beal’s Island storyteller, is a direct descendant of the giant Barney Beal. His yarns are as funny as Barney was strong. …

Salt, Vol. 9, No. 3, Salt Institute For Documentary Studies

Salt Magazine Archive

The magazine about the really important people of Maine. Folk Culture. Popular Culture. Bingo. Junkyards. Folk Music. Big Paul Bunyan, Maine “folk hero,” is an ad salesman’s product. His nemesis stands in the heart of the great North Woods.

Content

• 3 Eating in Maine If you want to eat where the locals eat, this is where you’ll find them-where prices are right and the talk is familiar.
• 9 View from Pier Road
• 10 We Are What We Buy L.L. Bean and the Beans of Egypt) Maine have some things in common) says George Lewis) a sociologist and Maine native. We …

Salt, Vol. 9, No. 2, Salt Institute For Documentary Studies

Salt Magazine Archive

The magazine about the really important people of Maine. Special Issue: Rural Poverty in Maine — What Does It Mean? One in every five rural Mainers is poor. Like Monica, struggling to get by. Christmas rubs in the difference between having plenty and little.

Content
• 5 View from Pier Road
• 8 Being Poor in Rural Maine One in every five Mainers is poor. The numbers are growing even in today’s job market. Salt tells the story of the rural poor in Maine through their words and lives.
• 10 Portraits Lauretta Elie and Emily Kinney have two things in common. They …