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An opening into other worlds was unveiled Friday night (October 13) at the Unity Performing Arts Centre gallery, where a film and a showing of wall hangings disclosed scenes from Maine’s ancient past.
Mark Hedden of Vienna, an archaeologist with the Maine Historic Preservation Commission, introduced his film, "Song of the Drum," on the ancient petroglyphs, or rock carvings, found at several sites in Maine. The show, titled "Other Worlds, Entrances and Exits," includes a series of "surface prints" made from petroglyphs at Machias Bay as well as sculpture and weavings by Alison Enslin and Carol Hedden.
The prints reveal the original imagery of the petroglyphs, some of which are believed to be about 3,000 years old. Simple lines "dinted," or pecked, into rock show elongated human figures and animals that Mark Hedden explains depict the activities, dreams, visions and "spirit familiars" of Maine Indian shamans. Their lineage descends back through the region’s Passamaquoddy Indians to the Early Woodland period of Maine’s prehistory. The petroglyphs found at seven sites along Machias Bay are thought to be between 300 and 3,000 years old.
Other petroglyph sites in Maine associated with the practices of native shamans are at Grand Lake Stream, Embden and the Sebago Lake area.
"Other Worlds, Entrances and Exits"
will be at the Unity Performing Arts Centre and Centre Gallery until the end of October. The exhibit is open to the public during scheduled events and by appointment. For information, call 568-3147 or 948-7469, or go to http://www.unitymaine.org. In addition, copies of "Song of the Drum" are available on DVD from Acadia Publications in Brunswick.
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