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The exhibit “Uncommon Threads: Wabanaki Textiles, Clothing and Costumes” will open 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Saturday, May 23, at the Maine State Museum in Augusta, according to co-curator Bruce Bourque, chief archaeologist and curator of ethnology at the museum. Admission will be free all that day.

Special curator-led tours will be given 11 a.m.-1 p.m.

The more than 100 textiles in the exhibit are the work of Maine’s four American Indian groups: the Penobscot, the Micmac, the Maliseet and the Passamaquoddy.

“Historical examples of Wabanaki textiles are scattered, scarce and fragile,” Bourque said. “Our concern has been that, fragment by fragment, more will slip away over time. We hope this landmark exhibition will help rescue from obscurity one of North America’s most dynamic indigenous textile traditions.”......

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