Missisquoi Wildlife Refuge 2016 "Abenaki life" Program begins.

Where: Missisquoi Wildlife Refuge
29 Tabor Road Swanton, VT 05488
802-868-4781
When: January 29 2016. 6:00 PM-8:00 PM
Program Title: "Always in Fashion: 10,000 years of Wabanaki attire"

Last Fall, Dr. Fred Wiseman of Swanton Vermont, as well as the Wapohnaki Museum Cultural Center and the Passamaquoddy Cultural Heritage Museum, co-produced an historic fashion show in Maine. It featured twenty four of Dr. Wiseman's original and re-created clothing outfits, based on over 25 years of study of historic and ancient Abenaki clothing, headgear, jewelry and fashion accessories. This deeply moving cultural experience has much to teach indigenous people in Vermont about tribal revitalization, and points the way perhaps, to new directions in Abenaki arts. Dr Wiseman will share an extremely rich slide show of reconstructed and original prehistoric and historic clothing, including that of an Ice-Age mariner on the Champlain Sea, 1600's warriors defending their homeland, and 1920's basket sellers at Highgate Springs. In addition, he will share some rare examples of historic Abenaki, Penobscot and Passamaquoddy clothing that have survived until this day. Dr. Wiseman will also preview the "Alnobak" clothing exhibit that is planned to open in June at the Lake Champlain Maritime Museum in Vergennes. Following the presentation will be time for questions as well as time to view the original Abenaki clothing from Wiseman's collection.

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