Indian Summer Auction Closed! Thank you for participating!

The Indian Summer Auction is now closed but please visit the Abbe Museum Shop to purchase authentic Native American baskets, carvings, jewelry and other art forms by Micmac, Maliseet, Penobscot and Passamaquoddy artists of Maine and the Maritimes.   The Abbe also features  a variety of Native American books.  Visit on-line at www.abbemuseum.org.

The Abbe has a long-standing relationship with tribal artisans from the Maliseet, Passamaquoddy, Micmac, and Penobscot Indian Nations.  Through 12,000 years of cultural development and refinement, the Wabanaki or People of the Dawn are producing some of the finest examples of Native American basketry, carvings and birch bark art on the market today.  The Indian Summer Online Auction uses modern technology to promote traditional Native arts in an effort that not only supports the Abbe, but Wabanaki artisans as well.

The Abbe Museum is the only museum in the world dedicated to the Wabanaki, the Native American people of Maine and the Maritimes. The Abbe has a collection of over 50,000 archeological, historic and contemporary objects including stone and bone tools, pottery, beadwork, carved root clubs, birch bark canoes, and supporting collections of photographs, maps, and archival documents.  It holds the largest and best-documented collection of Maine Native American basketry in any museum.  Its collections conservation program is recognized nationally as a model for museums.