Waponahki Museum & Resource Center at the Pleasant Point Passamaquoddy Reservation

Located in the Sipayik region of Maine, the Waponahki Museum displays items relating Passamaquoddy Indian culture and history, most donated by area residents. Several old-fashioned tin postcards are reproduced, making up a visual wall display; a large collection of irreplaceable and one-of-a-kind artifacts (many over 100 years old) include a 17-foot birch-bark canoe, snowshoes, hand-woven baskets, and a variety of antique tools used by the Skicinuwok.

A resource/language room provides a workplace for bilingual education programs and the ongoing project of translating the Passamaquoddy language into writing; no written version of this 'spiritually-based' language existed prior to 1970. Books and tapes preserving this unique language are also available here. Another room features life-size plaster likenesses of actual Passamaquoddy people, dressed in traditional attire, among which appear honored tribal elders. The museum is open by appointment.

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