Maine State Museum Chief Archaeologist Bruce Bourque to Present Talk on the Red Paint People
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03/12/2012 04:24 PM EDT
The Maine State Museum continues its annual series of talks and programs, "Highlights at the Maine State Museum," with a talk by Maine State Museum Chief Archaeologist Bruce Bourque on Wednesday, March 14. Dr. Bourque's presentation at the Maine State Museum in Augusta is free of charge and begins at 6:30 p.m.
Dr. Bourque will present an illustrated talk focusing on his decades-long research about the Red Paint People, a group of Native Americans who lived 4,000 to 5,000 years ago in the area between Maine's St. John and Androscoggin Rivers. "I have been fascinated by the Red Paint People and their unusual culture throughout my career," says Dr. Bourque. "They lived by the sea and hunted swordfish. They buried their dead in large, orderly cemeteries that included graves filled with a red powder, known as ocher, along with stone tools and bone ornaments of exquisite beauty and craftsmanship. After about 500 years, these people mysteriously vanished. Studying the Red Paint People's artifacts provides an important, though still inconclusive view of an intriguing early American culture, centered exclusively in Maine."
This fall, Dr. Bourque's book about the Red Paint People, "Swordfish Hunters - A Lost American Culture" is scheduled to be released by Bunker Hill Publishing.
Dr. Bourque began his archaeological career in Maine in 1969 and became interested in regional enthnohistory in the early 1980s. He curated the Maine State Museum's "12,000 Years in Maine" exhibition and wrote a seminal book by the same name about Maine's prehistory. He also co-curated, with Laurie LaBar, the museum's recent "Uncommon Threads: Wabanaki Textiles, Clothing, and Costume" exhibition and with LaBar, wrote a prize-winning book that accompanied the exhibition. In addition to his curatorial and research work at the Maine State Museum, Dr. Bourque serves as Senior Lecturer, Department of Anthropology, Bates College.
Bruce Bourque's lecture at the museum is the second in the 2012 winter/spring series of special programs and lectures. The series is sponsored by the Friends of the Maine State Museum and The Bank of Maine.
The Maine State Museum is located in Augusta, Maine in the State House Complex off State Street. For more information call (207) 287-2301 or visit the museum's website at www.mainestatemuseum.org.
Dr. Bourque will present an illustrated talk focusing on his decades-long research about the Red Paint People, a group of Native Americans who lived 4,000 to 5,000 years ago in the area between Maine's St. John and Androscoggin Rivers. "I have been fascinated by the Red Paint People and their unusual culture throughout my career," says Dr. Bourque. "They lived by the sea and hunted swordfish. They buried their dead in large, orderly cemeteries that included graves filled with a red powder, known as ocher, along with stone tools and bone ornaments of exquisite beauty and craftsmanship. After about 500 years, these people mysteriously vanished. Studying the Red Paint People's artifacts provides an important, though still inconclusive view of an intriguing early American culture, centered exclusively in Maine."
This fall, Dr. Bourque's book about the Red Paint People, "Swordfish Hunters - A Lost American Culture" is scheduled to be released by Bunker Hill Publishing.
Dr. Bourque began his archaeological career in Maine in 1969 and became interested in regional enthnohistory in the early 1980s. He curated the Maine State Museum's "12,000 Years in Maine" exhibition and wrote a seminal book by the same name about Maine's prehistory. He also co-curated, with Laurie LaBar, the museum's recent "Uncommon Threads: Wabanaki Textiles, Clothing, and Costume" exhibition and with LaBar, wrote a prize-winning book that accompanied the exhibition. In addition to his curatorial and research work at the Maine State Museum, Dr. Bourque serves as Senior Lecturer, Department of Anthropology, Bates College.
Bruce Bourque's lecture at the museum is the second in the 2012 winter/spring series of special programs and lectures. The series is sponsored by the Friends of the Maine State Museum and The Bank of Maine.
The Maine State Museum is located in Augusta, Maine in the State House Complex off State Street. For more information call (207) 287-2301 or visit the museum's website at www.mainestatemuseum.org.
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